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The Two St. Johns Of The New Testament. By James

Stalker, D.D. (Isbister and Co.)—This volume contains what looks like a series of sermons on the character, first, of the Evangelist St. John, and, secondly, of the Baptist.......

Journal Of Rear - Admiral Bartholomew James, 1752 - 1829....

Laughton, MA., with the assistance of James Young F. Sulivan. (Naval Records Society.)—With every feeling of sympathy for the work of the Naval Records Society in publishing the......

The Structure Of Man. By Dr. R. Wiedersheim. Translated By

H. M. Bernard. Edited, with Notes, by G. B. Howes. (Macmillan and Co.)—The special object of this work will be indicated by the words, "An index to his past history." It is, in......

Schoolmaster Sketches. By T. J. Macnamara. (cassell And...

Macnamara is a satirist, who has a definite object in view. He wants to benefit his profession. Hence he pictures the hard- ships and injustices which its members endure,......

French, And Was Produced About The Middle Of The Twelfth

century, though that now existing is Flemish, and is about a century later in date. (We presume " eleventh " on page xv. is a kspsus calami for "twelfth," to agree with the "......

The Story Of Australasia. By J. S. Laurie. (osgood,...

and Co.)—Mr. Laurie has not altogether fulfilled his excellent intention of writing a standard popular account of the settlement and colonisation of Australia, a task by no......

The Law's Lumber - Boom. By Francis Watt. (john Lane.)—...

has made a very curious collection of practices and principles which had their origin in needs or belief of the day, served, more or less, a useful purpose, became in process of......

Diocesan Histories: Chester. By The Rev. Rupert H....

(S.P.C.K.)—As a diocese Chester has no great antiquity. It was constituted in 1541, but insufficiently endowed (out of the revenues of the suppressed Abbey of St. Werbergh). At......

Hedonistic Theories. By John Watson, Ll.d. (maclehose And...

From Aristippus to Spencer" is the range of subject which Professor Watson proposes to himself, starting with a preliminary discussion on the "Influence of the Sophists on Greek......