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A Missionary Band : A Record And An Appeal. By

B. Brownhall. (Morgan and Scott.)—The first part of this volume is devoted to extracts from the letters sent home by missionaries in China, especially by the seven young men who......

A Study For Volunteers.* The Greatest Modern Example Of...

carried on largely, though not entirely, by Volunteer officers and men, was afforded by the prolonged and eventful contest between the Slave and the Free States of the North......

A Treatise On Nature. By The Rev. H. Collins. (f.

V. White and Co.)—Mr. Collins gives us here an elaborate argument on the doctrine of "design." He has evidently an extensive acquaintanoe with the facts of natural history, and......

Current Literature.

The First Century of Christianity. By Homersham Cox. (Long- mans.)—Mr. Cox has, we think, somewhat overloaded his book with matter, not indeed without value, but, for his......

Mr. Walpole's History.* It Would Be Difficult To...

charm and the interest of Mr. Spencer Walpole's book. All records of those astonishing years of social, political, and material development which elapsed between the close of......