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French Reader For The Use Of Colleges And Schools By

E. A. Oppen, Professor of Modern Languages at Haileybury College. (Macmillan and Co.)—The extracts are selected almost entirely from modern writers and the distinctive feature......

To-day. Essays And Miscellanies. By John Hollingshead....

Sons.)—These papers are reprinted from Good Words, All the Year Round Once a Week, The Daily News, and "many other Lon- don magazines and - journals," and "the only pride" the......

The Standard Alphabet Problem. A Contribution To Phonetic...

By Robert Moffat, jun. (Trubner and Co.)—The attempt to construct a universal alphabet, not, as heretofore, deductively from an examination of the physiology of the human voice,......

Current Literature.

A Treatise on the Construction of Maps. By William Hughes, F.R.G.S. Third edition. (Longman and Co.)—This excellent treatise has now been before the public twenty years, and its......

Eternal Punishment And Eternal Death. By James William...

Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Dublin. (Longman and Co.) —The author, holding the doctrine of future punishment, contends that it must always be reformative, and that when......

Handbook On Baptism. By R. Ingham. (simpkin, Marshall,...

—Upwards of 600 closely printed octavo pages, almost entirely devoted to the question of the lawfulness of sprinkling as distinguished from immersion. Allowing that Mr. Ingham......

Replies To The Third And Fourth Parts Of The Bishop

of Natal's "Penta- teuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined." By the Rev. Franke Parker, MA. (Bell and Daldy.)—These replies to Dr. Coleus() are be- come so thoroughly......

Poems. By Speranza (lady Wilde). (james Duffy.)—there Is...

very pleasant about a lady's poetical sedition. It is so very ram- pant Of course Lady Wilde is a firm believer in the theory that Ireland would have been benefited by a......

Sermons On Moral Subjects. By His Eminence Cardinal...

Duffy.)—This volume should be read by rabid Protestants. The greater number of the discourses it contains might pass muster in a village church very well, except of course one......

Sir Kingston James's Tasso.*

MILTON was in temper a schoolmaster, in practice a Puritan poli- tician, in learning a divine, in imagination a poet. Tasso, in imagi- nation a poet, was in temper a courtier......