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Current Literature.

The British Quarterly. July. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The politi- cal article, on "Mr. Gladstone's Statesmanship and the House of Lords," is spirited, but not wholly in good......

Hester's History.*

THERE are critics who imagine that the empire of the Novel is passing away ; they tell us that the time is fast coming—nay, is already upon us—when poems and histories and other......

The Contemporary Review. July. (strahan.)—the Most...

minds, is that in which Mr. Fearon summarizes the results of his inquiry, made by direction of the Schools' Commission in 1865, into the condition of secondary education for......