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The Daughters Of Syria. Edited By The Rev. Ii B.

Tristram. (Seeleys.)—The book is farther described as "A Narrative of Efforta by the late Mrs. Bowen Thompson for the Evangelisation of the Syrian Females." Mrs. Thompson......

Twenty Years Ago. Edited By The Author Of "john Halifax,

Gentleman." (Sampson Low and Co.)—This book is said to be "from the journal of a girl in her teens ;" and the editor tells us, nor will any reader find it difficult to believe,......

When I Was Young. By Charles Camden. (strahan.)—a Capital...

of sketches, short tales, (tc., by an author who knows how to write for boys. "Mooching," a local word for "playing truant," is particularly admirable, though we are inclined,......

Insanity And Its Treatment. By G. Fielding Blandford,...

and Boyd.)—This volume consists of lectures delivered by Dr. Bland- ford to a class at St. George's Hospital. But though they treat the subject professionally. they are such as......

Current Literature.

Miscellanies. Collected and edited by Earl Stanhope. Second Series. (Murray).—Lord Stanhope is more than justified in his hope that some of these papers will be found to......

The Country Of The Dwavs. By Paul Du. Chaillu. (j.

C. Hotten.)— M. du Chaillu puts a critic into some difficulty. If he would give a word of preface to the effect, "all this true," or "all this romance," or "this is a mixture of......

Jean Jarousseau, The Pastor Of The Desert. By Eugene...

Translated by Lieutenant-Colonel E. H. de l'Hoste. (H. S. King.)— Id. Pelletan is, we are told, the grandson of the Protestant pastor whose story he tells. The period which he......

Aids To Christian _education. Vol. I. The Baptismal...

the Hon. and Rev. W. H. Lyttelton. (W. W. Gardner.)—There is a very welcome air of reality about this little book. It is intended to be used especially in preparing the young......