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The History Of A Slave. By H. H. Johnston. (kegan

Paul, Trench, and Co.)—This tale, reprinted from one of the illustrated papers, is a realistic study of the most painful kind. The truth- fulness of its details makes itself......

The Earlier History Of English Bookselling. By William...

Low and Co.)—There is abundance of curious and interesting matter in this volume. Passing by the earlier periods, we come to " Bookselling in the Time of Shakespeare." " Few......

Cross Lights. (kegan Paul, Trench, And Co.)—we Have In This

volume six essays of considerable merit dealing with literary subjects. The second is a vigorous defence of the genuineness, or, it should rather be said, the partial......

The Church Of Scotland In The Thirteenth Century. By William

Lockhart. (Blackwood and Sons.)—Mr. Lockhart deals with his subject by telling his readers what is known of the life of an active Churchman of the thirteenth century, David de......

Dr. Joseph Parker Has Carried On As Far As The

eleventh volume his gigantic task of The People's Bible (Hazell, Watson, and Viney). The book of " Job " is his present subject. His treatment is, as may be supposed, homiletic.......

The History Of The Christian Church. By Philip Schaff, D.d.

(T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh.)—The volume now before us (divided, for convenience' sake, into two parts) deals with an important part of the great subject indicated by the......

With Everything Against Her. By Colonel Cuthbert Larking....

(Hurst and Blackett.)—Jack Manders, heir to a very proud and stubborn old squire, meets at Monte Carlo a pretty young woman who is left desolate by the suicide of the only......

Reminiscences Of Half - A - Century. By William Glover....

is a miscellaneous volume with not as many good stories in it as one might have been expected. Music is the specialty of the author, but he has something to tell us about......