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Essays On Anglo-saxon Law. (macmillan And Co., London ;...

Brown, and Co., Boston.)—This volume is made up out of four essays written in America, where it is satisfactory to find that the obscurest corners of early history are......

Gesta Romanorum. Translated By The Rev. C. Swan. (george...

London.) (Bohn's Antiquarian Library.)—We have here, translated for the benefit of those who wish to acquaint themselves with the literary aspect of medirevalism, the famous......

The Irishman In Canada. By Nicholas Flood Davin. (s. Low

and Co., London ; Maclean and Co., Toronto.)—At first sight, it does not seem a particularly "happy thought" to write in separate volumes histories of the German in Canada, the......

Cheer Or Kill. A Novel. By Eleanor Hitch. (charing Cross

Publishing Company.)—We presume that this is what is sometimes described as a novel of absorbing interest. The heroine, if we may so call her, plans and by the hand of another......

Current Literature.

The Life and Writings of St. John. By James M. Macdonald, D.D., Princetown, New Jersey, U.S. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—We are told by Dean Howson in his introduction that Dr.......

Maid Ellice. By Theo. Gift. (samuel Tinsley.)—family...

honours of an ancient lineage are among the most freely used of human weaknesses as the bases of difficulties and distresses among fictitious heroes and heroines. In real life,......