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The Three Witnesses. By The Rev. H. T. Armfield, M.a.

(Bagster and Sons.)—Mr. Artnfleld deserves, in any case, the praise of courage. " Lost causes" approve themselves to a certain class of chivalrous minds, and the cause of the......

That Was Always Melodious And Fluent, Though Showing Few...

of power. These sonnets are a distinct advance. The sonnet is, indeed, to a writer who really knows the principles of Ms art, and has the necessary command of expression, an......

—there Is Nothing, Of Course, That Will Not Be Pressed

into the ser- vice of the writer of fiction, and the Salvation Army is not likely to be an exception. Such we suppose to be the original of what is here called "The Heavenly......

Recollections Of The Kabul Campaign, 1879-1880. By Joshua...

II. Allen and Co.)—This handsome volume, the value of which is materially increased by the addition of maps and sketches, contains an eye-witness's account of the advance of......

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The Face. Church Principle : its Character and History. By Sir Henry Welwood Moncrieff, Bart., D.D. (Blacniven and Wallace, Edinburgh ; Hodder and Stoughton, London.)—Mr. Robert......

Antonio Rosmini Serbati.*

TffE career of Antonio Rosmini, the founder of the Order of Charity, was a marked instance of what Roman Catholics call a "special vocation." Born heir to a large property, head......

For The Major. By Constance Fennimore Woolson. (sampson...

Co.)—Mrs. Woolson is already favourably known to English reader by her clever and pleasing though rather prolix story called Anne, a work which reveals a tree sense of humour......

Circe's Lovers. By Leith Derwent. 3 Vols. (chatto And...

—" Circe" is a certain Lilian Desmond, who achieves a great success upon the stage, first in burlesque, then in the comedy of Shakespeare and Sheridan. Her lovers are three—to......

Readings In Social Economy. By Mrs. F. Fenwick Miller....

mans.)—" I cannot but think it emphatically necessary," says Mrs. Miller, in her preface, "that social science shall be written, as physical science has been already, with a......