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Henry Viii.'s Divorce S1jit.* [secorirt Noricts.)

OF a far higher interest than the desultory one offered by the purely Irish and Scotch documents are those which Father Theiner publishes on Henry VIII.'s divorce suit. It is......

Miss Russell's Hobby. (macmillan.)—a Clover Story, With A...

unnatural plot. The hero, whose age is till the end very carefully concealed, lives with his sisters, one of whom is a strong-headed, deep- hearted, unjust woman, and the other......

The Hunting Grounds Of The Old World By The Old

Shekarry (Long- man.)—Why the Old World, seeing that these adventures are entirely confined to Asia? We must not, however, quarrel with a name, when the book which it introduces......

A Lady's Walks In The South Of France. By Mary

Eyre. (Bentley.)— This book has been a little unjustly condemned. Miss Eyre no doubt writes like an egoist, talks absurdly mach about herself and her suc- cessful or......

Current Literature.

Theodore Parker's Works. Volume %IL Edited by Frances Power Cobbe. (Tritbner and Co.)—This volume contains some autobiographical and miscellaneous writings, of which the most......

Trifles For Travellers. By Robert Henniker, M.a. (murray...

practice of reprinting occasional essays can go no further than it is carried here, and the only thing to be said in its defence is that a very small railway book cannot be......

Uncle Walter. By Mrs. Trollops. (chapman And Hall.)—it...

apparently to reissue Mrs. Trollope's novels, which have only one value for men of this generation. They show what Mr. Trollope's would be if they were very much worse in design......