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Recent Novels.*

AMONG the crowd of clever modern novels it is delightful to come upon one which, like Mr. Robert Buchanan's Effie Hetherington, is above all things a work of imagination. The......

The Veil Of Liberty. By Peronne. (a. And C. Black.)—this

story relates the adventures of a Huguenot family of Nismea who go up to Paris soon after the declaration of "equal civil rights." One of the brothers, a former Protestant,......

The Tyrannies Of Opinion And The Fixities Of Belief :

Unscientific Guesses from a Non-Expert to Non-Experts. By " Zero." (Digby,. Long, and Co.)—This is an extremely interesting and thoughtful pamphlet by a thinker who has read a......

Current Literature.

Thoughts on the Spiritual Life. By Jacob Bebmen. Translated from the German by Charlotte Ada Rainy. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.)—This is a very interesting little......

Principles Of Metallurgy. By Arthur H. Hiorns. (macmillan...

book is of too technical a character for detailed notice in these columns, but it may be generally commended to those interested in the study. The introductory chapters are......

Cycling. "the Badminton Library." (longmans And Co.)—...

fifth edition, but our readers will scarcely need remind- ing that cycling has developed at such an extraordinary rate since the introduction of the safety bicycle, and most of......