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Medicerai Missions. By Thomas Smith, D.d. (t. And T....

This is the first series of the " Duff Missionary Lectures." If future lecturers emulate the research, the liberality, and the vigour of Dr. Smith, they will do well. He has......

History Of The Parish And Burghs Of Lawrencekirk. By William

Buxton Fraser, M.A. (Blackwood.)—There can be little doubt that books of this kind should be encouraged. Of coarse they must con- tain much that is of no interest at all to the......

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Low and Co.)—Mr. Russell's " Wreck of the Grosvenor" won for him no small reputation as a teller of sea-stories ; this will in one way be increased by the novel now before us.......

The Odes Of Horace : Englished And Imitated By Various

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