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The Young Philistine. By Alice Corkran. (burns And...

these four stories are excellent, fall of thought and delicately expressed pathos, and written with an admirable grace. We are inclined to give the preference to the third and......

A Loose Rein. By "wanderer." (bradbury, Agnew, And Co.)—...

is a novel in which sport, love, and Irish affairs are mingled together, the last being perhaps the most prominent, and certainly the most seriously treated, of the three......

Current Literature.

Is there a real feeling in Scotland—as distinguished from a mere sentimental, superficial, or newspaper opinion—in favour of Home- rule, or, in plain English, of the repeal of......

Conclusion Of The Scottish Dictionary.* Mr. Donaldson,...

of the new edition of Jamieeon's Scottish Dictionary, has brought an enterprise, which has taken in all about ten years, to completion, with a supple- ment which is in itself a......

The Bible And Contemporary History. By The Rev. W. H.

Pinnock. 2 vols. (Reeves and Turner.)—Dr. Pinnock's posthumous book will scarcely, we should think, repay the cost and trouble of publication. These two volumes are from one......

Romantic Spain.*

Mu O'SHEi describes his book as "a simple recital of personal Imps and mishaps in perturbed Spain, from the abdication of Amadeus to the entry of Don Carlos," and professes that......