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Current Literature.

History of the People of the Netherlands. By Petrus Johannes Blok. Part II., 'From the Beginning of the Fifteenth Century to 1559." (Putnam's Sons, New York. 2 dolls. 50......

The Church Of Cyprus. By The Rev. Ii. T. F.

Duckworth. (S.P.C.K. is.) —Mr. Duckworth's little book (the reprint of a lecture delivered at Oxford and Cambridge) dees with an inter- esting subject. We do not remember the......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have - not teen reserved for review in other forms.) Burma. By Max and Bertha Ferrara. (Sampson Low, Mar- ston, and Co.......

The Narrative Of General Venables. Edited By C. H. Firth,

M.A. (Longmans and Co. 10s.) — General Venables was sent by Cromwell in 1655 on an expedition to the West Indies. Hispaniola and jiaièa were his objective. The attack on the......

1898, Dr. Nicol, Who Since Their Delivery Has Been Appointed

to an important theological professorship in the University' of Aberdeen, has summed up in a systematic fashion and with almost perfect lucidity of style the results of recent......

Novels Of The Week.*

THE contents of Mr. Edgar Turner's volume, The Girl with the .Feet of Clay, are somewhat ill-assorted—ranging from tragic idylls to the wildest burlesque—and of vary- * (1.) The......

Highland Dress, Anna, And Ornament. By Lord Archibald...

and Co. 25s.)—Certain heroic, and still more, pathetic, incidents of the war in South Africa have directed attention once more to our Highland regiments. In that case such a......