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From Darkness To Light In Polynesia. By The Rev. William

Wyatt Gill, LL.D. (Religious Tract Society.)—Dr. Gill spent the thirty-three years of his missionary life in Rangaia and Rardanga island, of the Hervey group (under the......

Judas Maccabccus And The Jewish War Of Independence. By...

Reigner Conder, D.C.L. (A. P. Watt and Son.)—This is the second edition of a work originally published more than fifteen years ago. "I find," says Major Condor in his new pre-......

Natural History. — Alien's Naturalist's Library. Edited...

(W. II. Allen and Co.)—This is a useful and well-edited series of works, written mainly with a view to reference and concise information, on the lines of Sir W. Jardine's......

A Handbook To The Psalms. By The Rev. Edward M.

Holmes. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This little volume comes to the public commended by a preface from the pen of Bishop Stubbs. The writer, who takes the moderate view of......

Scarabs. By Isaac Myer, Ll.b. (d. Nutt.)—this Little Book Is

the work of a specialist. "The History, Manufactures, and Religious Symbolism of the Scarabaeus in Ancient Egypt, Phcenicia, Sardinia, 8:c.," is the sub-title. Mr. Myer has......

The Portfolio. (seeley And Co.)—the Subject For April Is...

; " and Mr. W. J. Loftie has collected a mass of interesting facts and historical details about the Palace, or rather Palaces, of Whitehall. It is difficult indeed to preserve......