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Critical And Social Essays. Reprinted From The New York...

(Low, Son, and Marston.)—Some of these papers are amusing, but they are too much in the nature of flyleaves to make up a volume. Even the most telling social articles in the......

Pleas For Secularization. By Aubrey De Vera....

this pamphlet misleads as as to its contents. Instead of pleading for secularization, Mr. Aubrey de Vero re plies to pleas in favour of it, and upholds the "just distribution"......

Supplemental Hymn And Tune Book. Compiled By The Rev. R.

Brown, St. Mary Hall, Oxford, Carats of Evesham, Worcestershire.—In few things has there been a greater revolution than in our psalmody, and considering the widespread enjoyment......

The Public Schools. By The Author Of Etoniana. (blackwood...

Sons.)—These sketches of the chief public schools appeared in Black- wood's Magazine, and like their predecessor, which was devoted to Eton alone, attracted some public......

Sketches By The Wayside. By T. Herbert. (a. W. Bennett.)—one

or two short hymns in this volume of 450 pages are worthy of being printed separately. (See the "Oh, hands outstretched for me ! " p. 347.) The rest of the book is prose cut up......

Bar/on! Bridge. By The Rev. H. C. Adams. (routledge.)—a...

of school-boy life, with the usual attractions of games, fights, feats, and prizes. Everything is told with spirit, if not always probable in itself, but it is the law of......

The Law Of Creeds In Scotland. A Treatise On The

Legal Relation qf Churches in Scotland Established and not Established to their Doctrinal Confessions. By Alexander Taylor Innes. (Blackwood.)—We fear that we cannot recommend......

Every Boy's Annual Edited By Edmund Routledge. (routledge...

not this a magazine bound up and disguised as an annual ? If it is not, how comes it that Mrs. Henry Wood and other authors run stories through it, which are interrupted by......

Lift Ofpastor Fliedner Ofsaiserswerth. Translated From...

Winkworth. (Longmans.)—This is a simple and natural sketch of the life of a man with whom Mr. de Liefde's books have made us familiar. Pastor Fliedner is the founder, amongst......

.remoter Stars In The Church Sky; Being A Gallery Of

Uncelebrated Divines. By George Gilfillan. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—We are afraid that most men will pronounce this book to be worthy of its subject., and likely to keep......

The Trinity Of Italy ; Or The Pope, The Bourbon,

and the Victor. By an English Civilian. (Meson and Co.)—The writer of this volume lived for eight years in Southern Italy, and had an official connection with the Court of the......