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Portraits In Plaster. From The Collection Of Laurence...

Brothers, New York.)—Thirty odd years ago Mr. Hutton bought a collection of half-a-dozen casts made from the faces of the dead. He has gone on adding to his collection, and now......

Current Literature.

Voice, Speech, and Gesture. (Charles Deacon and Co.)—The right book on the elocutionary art has at length appeared. In producing the work as many as six writers have been......

Christus Imperator. Edited By Charles William Stubbs,...

of "Lecture Sermons on the Universal Empire of Christianity" is, naturally, one of very varied merit. Some of them put the case as effectively as could be desired. Nothing could......

.a Forgotten Great Englishman. By James Baker. (r.t.s.) —...

great Englishman" is Peter Payne, a follower of Wyclif. He was Principal of St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, early in the fifteenth century. In the year 1417 " he was re- ceived," Mr.......

The Expansion Of South Africa. By The Hon. A. Wilmot.

(T. Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. Wilmot, who is a member of the Legislative Council of the Cape Colony, traces the history of the colony from the early days of Portuguese discovery......

A German History Of Europe From 1815 To 1871.*

THERE appeared not long ago, in an authoritative quarter, an article on modern German historians, classing and appre- ciating them according to their " methods " and " Weltan-......