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Some Thoughts On The Inspiration Of The Holy Scriptures. By

the Rev. Robert Eden, MA., late Fellow of C.C.C., Oxon, Honorary Canon of Norwich, and Vicar of Wymondham. (B. M. Pickering.)—We wel- come this contribution to the great......

Crescent? And Other Lyrics. By H. Cholmondeley Pennell....

and Co.)—The first of these poems seems to be an answer to the question whether poetry is "crescent" or on the wane. Like all the author's writing, it has thought in it, and......

Belts English Poets. Songs Of The Dramatists. Samuel...

Vol L (Griffin and Co.)—Two more volumes of this excellent series have reached us, of which the first seems to deserve something more than a merely formal notice. The songs to......

The Public Schools' Calendar, 1865. Edited By A Graduate Of

Oxford. (Rivington.)—This fat little volume will be welcome to anxious parents and guardians. It tells them allabout the chief public schools and what are the rewards they offer......

The Cruise Of The B. Y. S. Eva. By Arthur

Kavanagh. (Hodges, Smith, and 0°0—The author tells us that he was moved to write an account of his shooting cruise along the shores of Albania by a remark in the Field......

Outline Sketches In The High Alps Of Dauphin4 By T.

G. Bonney, M.A., F.G.S., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. (Longman and Co.) Mr. Bonney has limited himself to the composition of a guide- book for travellers in a......

Vincial Students. We Will Also Say At Once That She

appears to us to be influenced by a sincere desire for truth. Having said that much, we must also add that if this book were not supremely ridiculous it would be supremely......

Mr. Christopher Katydid Of Casconia. A Tale. Edited By Mark

Heywood. Two volumes. (Saunders, Otley, and Co.)—Unable to make much of the novel, the reader will perhaps in his despair turn to the preface, and we shall be much surprised if......

Of Singular Fulness, And There Is Even A Concise Account

of our col /ILO possessions and of all foreign countries ; the latter, however, is not quite as accurate as it might be, the editor not having yet heard of the death of King......

The Sunday Magazine. January, 1865. Besides Papers Of A...

religious character, Gotthelf 's excellent tale of "Kate the Grandmother" is continued, and there is an interesting notice of the late Joseph Sturge, written, however, with that......

Sketches Of Christian Life In England In The Olden Time.

By the Author of Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—Very inferior to the writer's previous work, and probably merely the result of the success of......