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Selmer., Booxs.—we Have Received In The Series Of "shake-...

: Select Plays," Twelfth Night, edited by William Aldis Wright, M.A. (the Clarendon Press), a volume whicl comes recom- mended by the editor's great reputation as a learned and......

Thereby. By Fayr Madoc. 2 Vols. (blackwood And...

a somewhat strange story, less happy, we are inclined to say, in its general conception than in the details of its execution. The cen- tral figure is an ex-Bishop, artist,......

That Mr. Russell Has Written. He Shows Especially The Same

wonderful capacity for word painting. Nothing could be better than his pic- tures of sea scenery, of the terrors of tempests, the ominous stillness of calm, of all the wonderful......

Ulfilas : Apostle Of The Goths. By Charles A. Anderson

Scott, B.A. (Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge.) —This is an interesting study, not so much of a great man as of a great work. The person- ality of Tilfilas, indeed, is clearly......

Personal Memoirs Of General Grant.* It Does Not Quite Appear

from the impressively—indeed, the tragically—modest preface to this work whether the use of the word " personal " in the description of it was the late General Grant's own idea,......

Weaver Stephen. By Joseph Parker, D.d. (s Wan...

Co.)—Various types of ministers and laymen, within and with- out the Established Church, are described in this volume, and described for the most part with humour, good sense,......

Current Literatur E.

The Church Quarterly Review, January.—There is a very able and important paper in the current Church Quarterly, entitled "Evolution and Design," showing, by means of very......

The British Citizen : His Rights And Privileges. By James

E. Thorold Rogers, M.P. (S.P.C. K.) —This " short history " is an excel- lent example of the author's manner and style when they are at their best. Mr. Rogers's utterances do......