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Our Father's Business. By Thomas Gathrie, D.d....

Dr. Guthrie holds up our Lord to our constant imita- tion, and teaches us how we may ho truly engaged on our Father's business. The spirit of the work is practical, and the......

The Peace Of Altistophanes.* Anisrornsanzs Is A...

literature. He com- bined real poetic inspiration with keen art and extravagant humour more fully than perhaps any other comedian, and he possessed also great satirical power,......

The Mystery Of Growth, And Other Discourses. By The Rev.

Edward White. (Elliot Stock.)—Although Mr. White says that the discourses in this volume are not wholly disconnected from each other, there is no very evident link of unity......

Rig - Veda Sanhita. A Collection Of Ancient Hindu Hymns,...

Fifth Book of the Rig - Veda. Translated by the late H. H. Wilson, M.A., F.R.S. Edited by E. B. Cowell, M.A. (Trtibner.)—This is the fourth volume of the late Professor Hayman......

More Than A Match. A Novel. By The Anther Of

Recommended to Mercy. Three vols. (Tinsley.)—We are willing enough to recommend this novel to mercy, but we cannot give it a more favourable verdict. It is very loose and......

The Crown Peerage For 1867. Compiled By Edward Walford, M.a.

(Hardwicke.)—Of making many peerages there is no end, and much study of them is weariness of the spirit. But Mr. Walford's compact little book is extremely useful, as it gives......

The Sermon . On The Mount. By The Rev. Walter C.

Smith, M.A. (Edinburgh : Edmond= and Douglas.)—Of the contents of this volume Mr. Smith says modestly, "They are simply ordinary congregational lectures, which have had the......

The Resurrection And The Sabbath ; Or, The Rest Of

the Seventh Day. (Westerten.)—The most remarkable thing about this book is that the- author should have kept it more than twelve years in manuscript. It is one of those strange......

A System Of Biblical Psychology. By Franz Delitzsch, D.d....

lated from the German, by the Rev. Robert Ernest Wallis, Ph.D.. (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark).—In making this translation, Mr. Wallis has had to contend with peculiar......

Liter Librorum: Its Structure, Limitations, And Purpose....

to a Reluctant Sceptic. (Longman.) — This new vindica- tion of the Bible is written from the point of view of liberal Chris- tianity, which neither abandons all that is......

Current Literature.

The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill. With a memoir by James Hannay. (Bell and Daldy.)—Messrs. Bell and Daldy are reissuing the "Aldine Edition of the British Poets," with,......