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Intuition Or Revelation? By The Rev. A. Boyd, Incumbent Of

Pad. dington. (Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday.)—A sermon preached before the Church Missionary Society, in which the author demonstrates with equal reason the necessity for a......

Current Literature.

Exercises in Translation from English Poetry into Greek and Latin Verse. By Henry Hayman, B.D., Head Master of the Cheltenham School. (David Nutt.)—If we were to hazard a......

The New Gymnastics. By Dio Lewis, M.d., Boston. (w....

—This volume is prefaced by an introduction written by Mr. Tyler, Principal of the London School of Physical Education. As we criticized the principles on which Dr. Lewis's......

. E Application Of Cast And Wrought Iron To Building

Pwposes. Bf Fairbairn, C.E., F.R.S., F.G.S. ThirdEdition. (Longman and This valuable work, which has been some time out of print, is now tdered to the architect and engineer in......

The Orator. Parts I., Il, And Iii. (h. A. Viles.)—the

plan of this publication is rather to give specimens of oratory than the speeches of orators. Few harangues are given entire, the parts in which the slie - aker was discussing......

An Essay Upon Composition Deeds And Other Modes Of...

Jvith Creditors under the Statutes 24, 25, Viet., cap. 134. By Thomas Erskine Holland, M.A., Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and of Lin- coln's Inn, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.......

Peter Parley's Annual For 1865. A Christmas And New Year's

Pre- sent for Young People. (William Kent and Co.) —A pleasant volume profusely illustrated with wood-cuts and coloured prints, showy if not very refined. The spirit of the......

Sight And Touch. An Attempt To Disprove The Received Theory

of Vision. By T. K. Abbott, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Dublin. (Longman and Co.)—A bold repetition of Mr. S. Bailey's attempt to overthrow Bishop Berkeley's......

The Simplicity Of The Creation ; Or, The Astronomical...

of the Blessed Virgin. By William Adolf. Second Edition. (Barns and Lambert.)--Another of the many treatises which have appeared of late, which in the opinion of their authors......

The Working Men's Club And Institute Magazine. No. I.,...

; No. IL, November, 1864. (John Jarrold and Sons.)—This sensible and practical little work is the organ of the Working Men's Club and Institute Union, to which Mr. Gladstone has......

The Classification Of The Sciences. By Herbert Spencer....

Norgate.)—Mr. Spencer seems to have written this pamphlet mainly to prove that he does not agree with the late M. Comte. This', we think, he establishes,—whether it was worth......

Four Readable Novels.*

THERE is a quality in some novels which is not subject to precise analysis, and that is readableness. It is like metaphysical sub- stance, the resulting product of many......