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The Philosophy Of The Cross. By The Rev. R. M.cheyne

Edgar, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Mr. Edgar states the forensic theory of the Atonement with an unshrinking boldness and a precision which strike one as uncommon, modified as......

Current Literature.

The Good Old Times. By W. Harrison Ainsworth. 3 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.)—Mr. Harrison Ainsworth has been busy writing novels for a good many years, but he has never been able......

Too Lightly Broken. 8 Vols. (samuel Tinsley.)—it Is But A

very scanty supply of material that is spun out into these three VoilltUes. Lino. Heathcote, the daughter of a musician, gifted with a splendid voice and ambitious of......

Fairly, And Without Any Unnecessary Display Of...

it is evident that he regrets the change of belief which caused the decay or neglect of some of the most interesting of the objects he describes. His volume is arranged in nine......

Three Essays On The Maintenance Of The Church Of England.

By the Rev. C. Hole, Rev. R. W. Dixon, and Rev. Julius Lloyd. (Murray.)— The competence of the judges who decided on the allotment at Sir H. Peek's prizes is unquestionable, and......

True To Life : A Simple Story. By A Sketcher

from Nature. (Mac- millan and Co.)—The motive of this refined, unpretending, and tran- quilly interesting book is to be found in its preface. "Such is the variety of taste,"......

Church Thought And Church Work.*

To feel one's pulse is not a sign of health certainly, but neither is it of necessity symptomatic of decay, but rather, perhaps, a living consciousness of something wrong which......