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A New Departure In Historical Handbooks.*

THIS generation has not proved so wise, even in education, as it was once disposed to think itself. The old methods, which trusted a good deal to the memory, and gave the......

Current Literature.

The Expositor. Edited by the Rev. Samuel Cox. Second Series. Vol. II. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The contents of this volume are as interesting as usual. Dean Plumptre contributes......

Poetia.—songs And Sonnets Of Spring-time. By Constance C....

(C. Kegan Paul and Co.)—The greater part of Hiss Naden's verse is of the serious kind. It shows occasional eloquence, good-taste, fair metrical skill, but hardly melody in any......