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History Of The Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858. By Colonel G. B.

Malle- son, C.S.I. Vol. II. (Allen and Co.)—Colonel Malleson takes up his story at the siege of Delhi, which he describes iu a narrative of re- markable vigour and interest. It......

A. Tangled Web. From The French Of Madame Nelly Lientier.

By Mary Dick. (Remington.)—The "tangled web" is that which "we weave, when first we venture to deceive." The particular deception about which this plot is woven is of an......

The Military Religious Orders Of The Middle-ages. By F. C.

Wood- house, M.A. (S.P.C.K.)—This is a useful summary of an interesting history. We cannot agree with all that Mr. Wodehonse says in his introduction. To us, he seems to rate......

Essays Of To-day : Religious . And Theological. By...

force Newton. (Boston : A. Williams.)—Mr. Newton is a clergyman of the Episcopal Church in Boston, which may indeed be congratulated on its possession of so able a minister.......

A Year In India. By Anthony; George Shiell. (samuel...

—It is, we presume, for a certain dramatic interest that Mr. Shiell prefixes to his narrative of "A Year in India" an account of how he ascended Mont Blanc. Or is it because the......

Current Literature.

Freedom. in Science and Teaching. From the German of Ernst Haeckel. (Kogan Paul and Co.)—This is a reply to Virchow's stric- tures on the evolution theory, in his famous Muni&......