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Three Phases Of Christian Love. By Lady Herbert. (bentley...

Son.)—The three sketches which form Lady Herbert's latest contribu- tion to popular Catholic literature, are derived from the Abbe Bougaud's " Histoire de Ste. Monique," and two......

Reflections. By A. B. Evans, D.d. (hodges.)—these...

short addresses delivered at mid-day celebrations of the Holy Communion in the Church of which Dr. Evans is rector. Hence they are necessarily brief and fragmentary, suggestive......

John Lexley's Troubles. By Charles W. Bardaley, Lila....

Windns.)—There is a great deal too much of this novel, and the author has only a feeble and imperfect notion of constructing a plot. Never- theless the book is very readable,......

Current Literature.

The Civil Service Orthography: a Handy-Book of English Spelling. By E. S. H. B. (Crosby Lockwood and Co.)—Here is an ingenious effort to overcome the greatest difficulty which......

The German - English Pocket Dictionary (by T. W. Longman)...

be in various respects an improvement on most dictionaries already in use in this country. Among other things, the differences between separable and inseparable verbs, which......

The New Republic.*

IT is not very easy to determine whether this clever squib be meant for anything more than a clever squib or not. That some of the leading Oxonians of the latitudinarian or more......

Four Studies Of Love. By A. W. Dabourg. (bentley And

Son.)— These stories, or "studies," as their author rather affectedly calls them, are reprinted from the Temple Bar Magazine. They are neither better nor worse than the stories......