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Biographical Sketch Of David Milne Home. By His Daughter, G.

M. H. (David Douglas, Edinburgh.)—This is a brief and unpretentious sketch of the life of a Scotch country gentleman— and advocate by profession—who took a much deeper interest......

Emigration And Immigration. By Richmond Mayo Smith. (t....

is interesting to see what an American student of political science—(Mr. R. M. Smith is Professor of Poli- tical Economy in Columbia College)—thinks of the vast immigra- tion......

The Throne Of Canterbury. By The Rev. Morris Fuller....

Ferran, and Co.)—Mr. Fuller's preface explains the object of his work. This he describes as being " to explain the Metropolitical Jurisdiction of the Hierarchy, and to uphold......

A New Departure, Of No Little Interest When Considered In

refer- ence to recent events, is made by A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry. By Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. Vol. L. (Harrison and Sons.)......

Place-names In Strathbogie. By James Macdonald, F.s.a....

since the publication of " Pickwick," it has been a fashion to sneer at provincial archteological and natural-history societies. There is little doubt, however, that they do......

The Slave Of His Will. By Lady Fairlie Cunningham. (spencer

Blackett.)—This is a story of hypnotism, bearing, by-the-way, a curious resemblance to another with the same motif which has lately come in our way. In both, the man who......

A Guide-book To Books, Edited By C. B. Sargant And

Bernhard Whishaw (Henry Frowde), may be mentioned as an effort, showing much industry, to classify books. We do not always see the reasons for omitting and inserting ; but the......

The Blind Apostle, And A Heroine Of Charity. By Kathleen

O'Meara. (Burns and Oates.)—In this new volume of "The Bells of the Sanctuary," there are presented two biographies of human as well as of religious interest. Gaston do &gar,......