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The Open Air. By Richard Jefferies. (cheat) And...

has unmistakably taken the place here which Mr. Burroughs has taken in America, of a thoroughly reliable photographer of Nature in prose. We are glad, therefore, to say that in......

Current Literature.

The English Rhetorical Review. Edited by the Rev. M. Creighton. (Longman.)—Nothing can be more readable than this new Quarterly Review. There is not a second-rate paper in it,......

On Both Sides. By Frances Courtenay Taylor. (lippincott,...

is a very clever and amusing satire on American and English peculiarities, the authoress taking good care that the English dogs should have the worst of it, though she wields a......

The Christian Reformer. No. 1. (williams And Norgate.)—we...

good wishes for this new " monthly magazine of liberal religious thought and life." Though the views expressed in the Editor's Introduction are not to our mind, the programme......

We Heartily Commend To Our Readers, On Occasion Of The

appear- ance of its annual volume, The Journal of Education, the seventh of the New Series (86 Fleet Street). It is a publication that has done and continues to do, excellent......

The Monthly Interpreter. Edited By Joseph S. Exell, M.a. (t.

and T. Clark, Edinburgh ; Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., London.)—The second annual volume of this excellent periodical is fall of valuable matter. We may mention a very......

The Century Guild Hobby-horse. No. 1. (kegan Paul,...

Co.)—This magazine will probably have something to say on Art which will be worth hearing, if we may judge from the three "Notes" -which Mr. Selwyn Image contributes to the......

The Unforeseen. By Alice O'hanlon. 3 Vols. (chatto And...

—There are some obvious criticisms to be made on this novel. The plot has some unnecessary convolutions. It might have been worked out, for instance, without any mention of the......

Major Monk's Motto. By The Rev. Frederick Langbridge....

Co.)—In some respects Mr. Langbridge's book is good. He hits off with success the conversation of his boy-heroes, for it is with school-life chiefly that he has to do. In his......

Quaint Sermons Of Samuel Rutherford.* The Words Of A Famous

Scotch preacher in the memorable years of the latter half of the seventeenth century can hardly fail to command attention ; and these " hitherto unpublished sermons," collected......