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Smoot Books.—xschylus Septem Contra Theban. Edited By A....

(Macmillan.)—Competent judges will expect to find in Mr. Permit's work brilliant scholarship and excellent taste, sometimes, it is possible, deflected from the true standard by......

Palestine In The Time Of Christ. By Edmond Stapler, D.d.

Translated by Annie Harwood Holmden. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —Professor Stapler has found the materials of his book first in the Gospels and Epistles, secondly is Josephus, and......

Cicero's Tusculan Disputations. Translated, With An...

Andrew P. Peabody. (Little, Brown, and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—Mr. Peabody continnes his translations from Cicero, and improves, we think, in accuracy and mastery of his original.......