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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......

Wisdom Versus Satan On The Stage Of Time. By "

Elijah the Prophet." ("Drews Letter" Office, Belfast.)—The authorship of this book is, as the reader perceives, very imposing. (It should be explained that "Elijah the Prophet"......

Oddities Of History. By John Timbs. (griffin.)—mr. Timbs...

inexhaustible supply of quaint stories. His critical judgment is not quite as good as his industry is indefatigable. What can he mean, for instance, by this,—" Almost all the......

Our Morals And Manners. First Series. By J. Baldwin Brown,

B.A. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—This little volume contains six of what the author calls "pastoral addresses." The name is often given to discourses or letters of a very......

The British Birds: A Communication From The Ghost Of...

By Mortimer Collins. (The Publishing Company, Limited.)—Aristo- phanes in the spirit would seem to be hardly himself. Ghosts, indeed, seem seldom to be so. It would be unjust to......