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Five Minute? Daily Readings Of Poetry. Selected By H. L.

Sidney Lear. (Rivingtons.)—This little book is intended to suggest the habit "of daily learning by heart a few lines of poetry," and also to lead to the reading of authors "......

Social History Of The Aramaeans. By A. Featherman....

volume of 652 closely printed pages forms only the fifth division and first instalment of a work on the social history of the whole human race. In a short introduction, Mr.......

The Odyssey Of Homer, By H. Hayman, D,d., Vol. Iii.

(D, Nutt)) concludes a work on which its author has been many years engaged, and completes a task which must have involved considerable diffi- culty, at all events in the......

Current Literature.

We should gladly give a cordial welcome to the first number of the Scottish Review (Alexander Gardner), the latest venture of a very enterprising and, in the best sense,......

The Sunday Magazine, For 1882, And Little Snowflakes,...

Children's Christmas Number of the same. (Isbister and Co.)— Dr. Maodonald's admirable, unseotarian Christian spirit rules this volume, and he is well supported by others who......

Limen Latinuna. By C. H. Gibson, M.a. (rolfe...

for adding one more to our many Latin exereise-booka, the author claims for his own the merits of " practical character, simplicity of arrangement, and copiousness of......

Shakespeare And Holy Writ. (marcus Ward.)—in A Dainty...

W. H. Malcolm has brought together "parallel passages" from Shakespeare and the Bible. In very many instances, Shakespeare is really illustrated by this method, but here and......

The Chain Of Life In Geological Time. By J. W.

Dawson, LLD , F.R.S. (The Religiona Tract Society.)—The title of this book will almost suffice to explain its scope and contents. On opening the volume, we at once observe that......