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Saint Peter Fourier. By L. Pingaud. Translated By C. W.

W. (Duckworth and Co. 3s.)—Peter Fourier was a very admirable person, to whose virtues his biographer does full justice, though he sometimes fails, we think, to guide his pen......

A- Lar Habits Of Thought In The United States. That

there is in that country a frightful amount of crimes of violence is c, ( n- eeded on all hands. Mr. Bausman finds some of the causes in a foolish sentimental sympathy with......

Sermons From Browning. By F. Ealand, M.a. (s. C. Brown

and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Ealand has republished, with the addition of two more recent essays, four "sermon-lectures" which he gave to the world some twelve years ago. The new......

7s. 6d. Net.)—this Is A Pleasant, Well-written, And...

to our vast and ever-increasing country literature. There is a touch of sadness in the first chapter, where the "old Dominie : a worn-out schoolmaster" describes the little......

Then They Are Dull. The Best Thing In The Book

is a quotation in prose, describing the methods of a certain person whom it would be more prudent not to name, but who claims that he is another Elijah. "The difference between......

A Layman's Life In The Days Of The Tractarian Movement.

(Parker and Co. 4s. net.)—Mr. John E. Acland has written a memoir of his father, Arthur Acland, who late in life, on succession to a relative's property, assumed the name of......

Curriculum For Boys And Girls Under Twelve" (" Under...

we find when the actual curriculum is reached) is the object of this book. But with these suggestions are joined some very good exposition of principles which should underlie......