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The History Of Music.* Is Undertaking To Write A History

of music from the earliest times down to the fall of the Roman Empire, Mr. Chappell has set him- self no slight task; the amount of technical knowledge, of linguistic skill, of......

Current Literature.

Other Men's Minds. By R Davies, D.D. (Warne and Co.)—This volume consists, the title-page informs us, of" seven thousand choice ex- tracts on history, science, philosophy,......

Brown As A Berry: A Novel. By George Douglas. (tinsley

Brothers.)—That "George Douglas " is a young lady is evident to the reader of Brown as a Berry, from the turning of the first pages of the 'book. After a chapter or two, it......

St. Athanasius's Orations Against The Arians, With An...

his Life. By William Bright, D.D. (The Clarendon Press.)—These Orations against the Arians belong to the period of the second exile of the great Patriarch from his see. "......