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The Law Of Life. Translated By Harriet E. Wilkinson From

the French of M. D'Espinassons. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—This strange volume is an attempt to deduce a species of SOCiall13131 from the Lord's Prayer. Asking for our daily bread......

The Day - Star Prophet. By Mrs. Alfred Annan. (hurst And...

—If Mrs. Allnutt cannot be said to have quite succeeded in giving adequate poetical expression to the character and history of St. John the Baptist, she cannot be said to have......

The Jewish Temple And The Christian Church. By R. W.

Dale. (Jack- son, Watford, and Hodder.)—A series of sermons on the Epistle to the Hebrews, addressed to a Nonconformist congregation, and written in an orthodox but liberal......

Tales Illustrative Of The Beatitudes. By Harriet Power....

Co.) Lift's-Paths. (Saunders, Otley, and Co.) Cushions and Cor- ners. By Mrs. R. J. Greene. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—These three volumes are all very good specimens of that mass......

Reports Of The Parisian Working-men Dele- Gates On The Great

EXHIBITION.* PanAnoxicAr., as it may seem, it is certain that by far the most abundant and authentic source of information as to the views and feelings of the French working......

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The Economy of Capital; or, Gold and Trade. By R. H. Patterson. (Blackwood and Sons.)—The earlier chapters of this book are a recast of a series of papers which appeared in......

Lancashire's Lesson. By W. M. Torrens. (trubner And...

an argument put with much force for having some permanent system of dealing with labour out of employment. Mr. Torrens says that there is always plenty of public work which......

The Gold Mine, And Other Poems. By Harriet E. Hunter.

(Hurst and Blackett.)—These verses seldom fall below a certain level of ex- cellence, but the author is hardly equal to a long flight. In The Gold Mine one sees no meaning in......

After - Business Jottings. Poems By R. R. Bealey....

Co.)—There is much lender feeling in these verses, especially in those which are addressed to children, and they are always polished and unaffected. Some of the poems in the......

Force And Matter. By Dr. Louis Biichner. Edited By J.

F. Coning- wood. (Trubner and Co.)—This little book is written by the President of the Medical Association of Hesse, and is marked by singular clear- ness and force of......

Labour And Wait. By Emma J. Worboise. (houlston And Wright.)

—A pleasant specimen of the author's favourite tale, in which the heroine is not appreciated in youth and has to be a governess, and then meets the destined man who would......