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A Text-book Of Indian History. By The Rev. G. U.

Pope, D.D. (Gladding.)—" This book," says the author, "is strictly a manual for students, and everything has been sacrificed to the one object of making it thoroughly useful in......

Macalpine ; Or, On Scottish Ground. 3 Vols.—this Is A

tedious story, which it is not very easy to follow, partly perhaps on account of the unusual English in which it is written. What is the meaning, for instance, of the following......

A Commonplace Book Of Epigrams, Analytically Arranged....

S. Carey. (Tegg.)—"Analytically arranged " means " arranged according to subject,"—as good a method, perhaps, as any other ; only some of the divisions have a queer look. Here......

Secular Annotations On Scripture Texts. Second Series. By...

B.A. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—We can do little more than repeat the very high praise which we had the pleasure of bestowing on the first series of these Secular Annotations. The......

Current Literature.

The Dublin Review. July, 1872. (Burns and Oates.)—This is a much more interesting number of the Dublin Review than the last. We must say, however, that the able writer of the......

Diseases Of The Nervous System.*

Ix so far as lay criticism is admissible on a professional treatise, we may advance the proposition that, not to medical men only, but equally to all students of physiology, Dr.......