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Current Literature.

from the majority of the very numerous little manuals of laboratory instruction which have been produced during the last few years. Of course, the simple experiments in......

The Education Of Landowners.* There Are Books Which It May

be well to keep for medical pur- poses. They may be of no more use to the owner than certain drugs are to the physician, which he hopes never to need in his proper person. Such......

Stoicism. By Rev. W. W. Capes. (" Ancient Philosophies Fcr

Modern Readers." Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.)—The "modern readers" addressed by this series of books are presum. ably readers who are not able or willing to study......

Essays And Phantasies. By James Thomson. (reeves And...

who received Mr. Thomson's " City of Dreadful Night" as a singularly powerful manifestation of poetic imagination will be naturally eager to learn bow he deals with prose. When......