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Savonarola.* It Is Not All The Merit Of The Historian

which makes this the most interesting religious biography that we know of in modern times. In the very name of Savonarola there still lingers some of the magic spell which......

The New Local Authorities Cannot Plead The Scarcity Of Coun-

sellors for any errors that they may commit. Not reckoning the abundance of good advice that they receive from the Press, they have a considerable choice of legal handbooks.......

We Have Received The Annual Volume (the Fifty-first) Of...

Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, by Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms. (Harrison and Sons.)—The work begins with a very complete index, including not only all persons......

Reminiscences Of Two Wars And Two Exiles. By F. W.

Newman. (Began Paul, Trench, and Co.)—This is a disappointing little book. The title promises something interesting, sketches of the personalities of the t%vo " exiles "......

The Garden Of God : A Series Of Conversational Catechisings

and Addresses for Children. By the Rev. C. J. Atherton. (Skeffington.) —Among the many things that are being done for children nowa- days, things of which our fathers and......

Current Literature.

There is nothing specially interesting in the February number of the Universal Review, unless it be a very instructive paper by Mr. R. Donald on the population of France. It......