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Thomas-d-kempis. By Francis Richard Cruise, M.d. (kegan...

Co.)—Much of Dr. Craise's book has been antici- pated by former writers on the subject. The authorship of the "De Imitatione" had, for instance, been already settled to the......

Current Literature.

Other Suns than Ours. By Richard A. Proctor. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—We need hardly say that Mr. Proctor's volume is interesting. His first nine chapters are devoted to the stars,......

The Homilist. Vol. Lviii. (houlston.)—there Are Some...

volume to which we cannot assent, to the complaint, for instance, of a "Clerical Critic" that the "clergy will soon be bound hand and foot to the Bishops." Was there ever such a......

Monarchs I Have Met. By W. Beatty-kingston. 2 Vols. (chapman

and Hall.)—When Mr. Beatty-Kingston has disarmed a possible criticism by confessing what he calls the "ad captandum character," and what might be called the " swagger " of his......

The Rothschilds.*

WHEN, in 1801, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, of Frankfort, was appointed "Court Jew" to the Landgrave of Hesse, it was a curiously significant title that he received. Serene......

Major Knollys, Ra., Paid A Short Visit To Japan To

recruit his health, which had been impaired at Hong Kong, and expands his note-book into a series of light and readable chapters, under the title of Sketches of Life in Japan......

The Van Guelder Papers. Edited By "j. T. I." (g.

P. Putnam's Sons.)—We are reminded—of course, it is meant that we should be reminded—of Diedrich Knickerbocker. Possibly the late "Mr. John gnod," who "prepared to write a......

Agriculture In Some Of Its Relations With Chemistry. By...

F. H. Storer. (Sampson Low and Co.)—In the two volumes before us Professor Storer has embodied the substance of lectures delivered at the Bussey Institute during a period of......

We Have Received The Fourth Edition Of The Law Of

General Average, English and Foreign. By Richard Lowndes. (Stevens and Sons.) —" General average," it may be necessary to explain, is a technical term connected with damage to......