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The Causation Of Sleep. By J. Cappie, M.d. Second Edition.

(James Thin.)—It would be manifestly impossible to do adequate justice to Dr. Cappie's argument in a brief notice. But we may commend his clearly written essay on the causation......

The Medical Language Of St. Luke. By The Rev. W.

K. Hobart, LL.D. (Hodges, Figgie, and Co.)—This elaborate treatise discusses with mach learning and acumen the arguments in favour of the Position that the Gospel according to......

Nights At The Play. By Hatton Cook. 2 Vols. (chatto

and Winclus.)—Mr. Dutton Cook has collected in these volumes some hundred and fifty theatrical criticisms, contributed daring the years 1867-1881 to the Pall Mall Gazette and......

The Little Princess. From The German Of E. Marlitt....

by Blanche E. Slade. (Remington and Co.)—Without feeling that The Little Princess possesses any extraordinary merit, we must most sincerely condole with her author on the......

Evolution And Creation. By H. Bosse, M.d., F.r.s. (j. Leng

and Co.) —The author of this work describes it as "a thesis main- taining that the world was not made of matter by the development of one potency, but by that of innumerable......

Rienzi : An .,esthetic And Historical Poem. By T. Stanley

Rogers , B.A., LL.B. (Ponsonby, Dublin ; Pearce, Southport.)—" Among the most vicious effects of the modern crusade against those forms of faith and aspiration which have......

Coming ; Or, The Golden Year. A Tale. By Selina

Gaye. (Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday.)—This is a story of German religions life, very enthusiastic and speculative ; fall of yearning for the Millennium, and hopes of "the......

Idler And Poet. By Rossiter Johnson. (osgood And Co.,...

—These verses are not all bad. There is a dash of imitation in them, now of Longfellow and now of Freed, and the best of them, "A Rhyme of the Rain," has something of Edgar Poe,......

Judcea And Her Rulers. By M. Bramston. (society For...

Christian Knowledge.)—The author of this work explains that its object is "to give a connected view of the history of the nation of Israel between the destruction of Jerusalem......

A Study ; With Critical And Explanatory Notes Of Alfred

Tennyson's Poem, "The Princess." By S. E. Dawson. (Sampson Low and Co.) —Very critical, highly explanatory, rather pompons, and quite un- necessary. "The Princess" is not a......