28 JULY 1877, page 21

The Inductive Method Of Christian Inquiry. By Percy...

and Stoughton.)—.We do not find it easy to say what is the precise drift of this volume, or for what sort of readers it is specially intended. The title does not scorn to na......

A Peep Behind The Scenes At Rome. By T. A,

Adolphus Trollope. (Chad° and Windus.)—Mr. Trollope does not love the ecclesiastical authorities of Rome. We must, it is to be presumed, take his observa- tions cum grano. On......

British Industries Sea Fisheries. By E. W. Il Holdsworth,...

Fisheries. By Archibald Young, (Stanford.)—Mr. Holds worth describes the various kinds of movable nets which are employed in sea-fiehing, and the manner of using them,......

Current Literature.

The Satan of Scripture. By a Clergyman. (Smith and Elder.)—The author writes with evident earnestness of conviction, and is impressed with the belief that to doubt or to......

Sayings Of The Jewish Fathers. Edited For The Syndics Of

the Cambridge University Prose. By Charles Taylor. (Cambridge Uni- versity Press.)—Without attempting to estimate the critical value of this work—and Mr. Taylor's reputation......

Bitter To Sweet End. 3 Vols. (samuel Tinsloy.)—this Is A

novel of a very ordinary kind. The characters are conventional, the incidents well worn by use. Of course, we know that the child who has been reared by the hospitable farmer......

Alix Fait:ford. By John Dangerfield. 2 Vols. (sampson Low...

Co.) —This novel gives the filling-up of an outline which was pablished some little time ago in the New Quarterly Magazine. It seems to have called forth some criticism from the......

The Jericho Road: A Story Of Trestern Life. (jansen And

0o., Chicago; Trilbner, London.)—We cannot pretend to say whether this story is true to the life which it describes, but its power and interest are beyond question. A waif......