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Essentials Of New-testament Study. By W. E. Little Wood,...

(Long- mans.)—This is a very complete book of its kind. A brief account of the MSS. of the New Testament, and of each writer, with the special and distinguished characteristics......

The Childhood Of The World: A Simple Account Of Man

in Early Times. By Edward Clodd, F.R.A.S. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr.Clodd's little book is a first essay in a work which will have to be done. Children will have to be taught about......

Republican Superstitions. By Moncnre D. Conway. (h. S....

title-page adds, "as illustrated in the political history of America." Mr. Conway's readers, therefore, will not be surprised to hear that the superstitions which he denounces......

Effle's Game. By Cecil Clayton. 2 Vols. (h. S. King.)—this

is a simple, pretty love-story. Effie and her sister Constance go to live with a bachelor uncle, who has a general's command in Portsmouth. Constance'e fortunes are easily told.......

The Autobiography Of A Cornish Rector. By The Late James

Haruley Trogenna. 9 vols. (Tinsloy.)—Why arc we not allowed a word of preface or introduction to tell us something about "Janice Hawley Tregonna "? We are haunted with a doubt......

Current Literature.

The Fool of Quality ; or, the History of Henry, Earl of Moreland. By Henry Brooke, Esq. Newly revised, with a biographical preface, by the Rev. C. Kingsley. (Macmillan.)—Most......

The Intellectual Life.* Ma. Hamenton Has Written A Book...

peculiarly illustrates his own views of intellectual life. It is clear, careful, thorough, dispassionate, and disinterested. We use " disinterested " in his own sense ; that is,......

Our Readers Will Have Observed That Through An Un- Fortunate

mistake in printing the extract from the Life of Mr. Grote which we gave in our last number, the evidence as to the early date of M. Thiers' conviction that a republic had......