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Current Literature.

The North British Review, No. Cl. (Edmonston and Douglas.)—The North British Review commences its second century of issue with a very able number. The article on the "Massacre......

Gulielmi Shaksperii Julius Ccesar. Latino Reddidit...

quite agree with Mr. Denison that translation is very much to be preferred to "what is called by courtesy 'original composition' in the teaching of the classical language." But......

Lectures And Speeches. By Elihu Burritt. (sampson Low And...

—We have every wish to be respectful to Mr. Burritt, who has done hie beet to help more than one good cause, has laboured earnestly for freedom, education, and peace, but this......

Love Me For My Love. By The Author Of Flirts

and Flirts. 2 vols. (Bentley.)—There is more than an average amount of merit in this novel, though it is scarcely agreeable to read, and though the story scarcely excites the......

The Dublin Review, October, 1869. (barns And Co.)—the...

take more pains with its politics. The article on the Irish land law is hesitating, abstract, in a word, not up to the mark,—certainly not written by a politician who deeply......

Dr. Harold's Note-book. By Mrs. Gascoigne....

somewhat slight in texture, but pleasantly written, generally developing a fair amount of interest in the plot and of a most unexceptionable morality. Some of them have already......

Early Englund And The Saxon-english. By W. Barnes, B.d. (j.

R. Smith).—This modest little volume is full of carefully selected and arranged information, which is not rendered less attractive by the peculiarity of Mr. Barnes' style. He......

Lord Austin's Bride. By Rowland M. Ford. (freeman.)—the...

to the reader what a few pages will convince him of, that this tale would be appropriately found not in the green-cloth cover of the ordinary novel, but in the more popular......