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An Expositor's Note-book; Or, Brief Essays On Obscure Or...

Scriptures. By Samuel Cox. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Mr. Cox deals with the difficulties which he selects for exposition with a success which, as might be expected, varies......

Dower And Curse. By John Lane Ford. 3 Vols. (tinsley.)—the

title leads one to expect a tale of many sensations, but we are agreeably disappointed. The heroine is a girl of very humble origin, whom a certain Mr. Victor Horbston adopts,......

Defence Of The English Ordinal. By The Rev. W. R.

Churton, MA. (Rivingtons.)—This is a learned defence, and one wholly free from acrimony, of the English forms of ordination. It deals chiefly with Protestant objections, which......

Educational Conzparisons. By Swire Smith. (simpkin And...

lectures his fellow-townsmen of Keighley with consider- able vigour and plainness of speech. One measure that he gives of the number of the illiterate is new to us. It seems a......

History Of The Christian Church. By James Craigie...

IV. (1303-1517.) (Murray.)—We regret that Mr. Robertson brings his work to a conclusion with this volume. Age has overtaken him in his work, and he shrinks from entering on a......

The Cravens Of Cravenscroft. By H. Bonverie Pigott. 3 Vols.

(Tinsley.)—This is an ordinary novel, in no way disagreeable or objectionable, and even, to persons of ordinary toleration in this respect,. readable. The well-known dramatis......

Rosa Noel. 3 Vols. (bantley.)—if Rosa Noel Be, As A

title-page bare of all but the name weuld seem to indicate, the work of a new writer, it holds out no inconsiderable promise for the future. Inex- perience may very well account......