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Catholic Charms.* 'furs Is A Very Painful Book. Nothing Can

be more painful to earnest men, men who can see the grandeur in Roman Catholi- cism, than to read a record of the religious feeling wasted on the trivial and feeble......

Dispauperisatiom By The Rev. J. R. Pretyman....

is, to put the matter plainly, directed against the Poor Laws. The improvident should not, he thinks, have a secure provision against want. From a purely economical point of......

The Agamemnon : A Tragedy Taken From "eschylus. (bernard...

author describes his work with modest vagueness. His tragedy is " taken " from 2Eschylus. In the effort to make the original an intelligible reality to the modern reader, "I......

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Lytton, (Biokers).—The most remarkable thing in this volume is to be found in the "Two Ghost Stories." The author relates them, we take it for granted, in good-faith, as they......