23 MARCH 1867, page 21

Stonewall Jackson.*

WHEN, about a year ago, Mr. Lowe was uttering the most eloquent of his many eloquent libels on government by the people,—when he was denouncing democracy, "that bare and level......

Extemporary Preaching. By F. Barham Zincke....

began his career as a clergyman by writing two sermons a week and reading them to his congregation. The results he experienced were much the same as the conclusions that must be......

A Plan For The Formal Amendment Of The Law Of

England. By Thomas Erskine Holland. (Butterworths.)—This plan has been submitted at the suggestion of Lord Westbury to the Royal Commission which is now sitting. Mr. Holland......

Current Literature.

The Contenporary Review. March. (Strahan.)— Lord Lyttelton opens the March number of this solid monthly with an article on "Ex- travagance in Devotional Writings" which will......

- Nights In The Harem. By Emmeline Lott. (chapman And...

A very proper book, despite the exceeding bad taste of its title, and a very stupid one. Mrs. Lott, instead of continuing the narrative of her own experiences, which had from......

Grandmama's Nursery Stories. (london : Whitfield, Green,...

is a very lively little nursery volume, and Grandmama, though she "points her moral," also "adorns her tale," into quaint illustrations. Morality may indeed, in the story of......

Of The Line. By Lady Charles Thynne. (hurst And Blackett.)—a

very neatly written, well devised story, without any trace in it of original power. The characters are all natural, the incidents such as might occur in any household, yet with......

Aedeker's Italy. Part Ii., Central Italy ; Part Iii.,...

Italy. (Williams and Norgate.)—So many English travellers who can read German have put their trust in Btedeker that a translation of his guide- books for the much larger number......