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Poems : Including Tales, Ballads, And Songs. By Robert...

(Kelso, Rutherford; London, Longmans.) — Mr. White's poems de- serve a kindly word of encouragement. They are natural and unpre- tending, and though not calculated to command......

The Church And State Question, As Settled By The Ministry

of Our Lord and of the Apostles. By Robert Vaughan, D.D. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—Dr. Vaughan might appear from this work a strong High Churchman, who writes with allying......

J It Was Hardly Worth While Translating Them In Order

to give the faith- fill in England the pleasure of finding one of their sentiments echoed in Georgia,—to enable them to rejoice, as Mr. Malan suggests, that there are brethren......

Ireland And Her .churches. By James Godkin. (chapman And...

—It is a pity that Mr. Godkin has not better digested his materials, and put them forth more forcibly and in a shorter compass. His book as it stands will be serviceable to......

Muriel; Or, Social Fetters. A Novel. By Mrs. Edwin James.

(Skeet.) —This is an extremely foolish book, of the truest young-lady type, with the addition of, just so much knowledge of the world as takes away the charm of innocence from......

Current Literature.

Words Spelled in Two or More Ways by Different Authors, with an Attempt to Settle their Orthography. By Robert Sullivan, LL.D. (Dublin : M. and J. Sullivan.)—This little book......

The Merchant's Handbook. By W. A. Browne, Ll.d....

work gives the coinage and the weights and measures of every country. We need say no more to show that it is simply invaluable.......

Our Cousins In Australia. By Isabel 3lassary. (edinburgh...

P. Nimmo.)—We can recommend this story as pleasing and healthy, a little spun out, but never forced or affected. The scene is laid in Sydney, and the tale is put in the mouth of......

Grif: A Story Of Colonial Life. By B. L. Farjeon.

(Dunedin : William Hay.)—An Australian story, reminding us alternately of Geoffry Hamlyn and of the works of Mr. James Greenwood. There is promise in the book, though the author......