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A General Sketch Of The History Of Persia. By Clements

It. Mark- ham. (Longmans.)—The visit of the Shah naturally suggested a big volume about Persia, and it was necessary, of course, that the writer of such a volume should make it......

History Of The Church Under The Roman Empire, A.d. 30 - 476.

By the Rev. A. D. Crake. (Riiington.)—Mr. Crake describes his volume as "the result of an attempt to render the history of the early Church interesting to the general reader,......

The Heir Of Reddesmont. 3 Vols. (s. Tinsley.)—it Is Only

too clear that the verdict of the jury will not put an end to the Tichborne Case. We shall be always having it served up again by the unhappy persons who, it seems, cannot sleep......

Too Late. By Mrs. Newman. (henry S. King And Co.)—the

materials of this tale deserved better of Mrs. Nowman's hands than to be made into an overdone hash. The idea of King Cophetua and the beggar-maid reappears, but in a new form,......

Little Lady Lorraine. By Courteney Grant....

of the varieties of the femme incomprise. She has a Platonic affection for Walter Carew, which, when she has married some- one else, she discovers to be a serious passion, and......

Current Literature.-

The Works of Horace Rendered into English Prose. By James Lonsdale, MA., and S. Lee, M.A. (Macmillan.)—That this is a most useful volume there can be no doubt whatever. The......