23 MAY 1863, page 18

Books.

MR. KINGSLEY'S WATER-BABIES.* Ma. KINGSLEY'S genius is so remarkable for its sympathy with the irrational forms of animal life, and the rational element in it is so often merged......

Dean Milman's History Of The Jews.*

IT is a very vain task to criticize Dr. Milmau's History of the Jews. The book has evidently supplied a keenly felt want, for it has lived for a generation, and this edition,......