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Agnes. By Mrs. Oliphant. (hurst And Blackett.)—mrs. Oli-...

seems to us two people, each irreconcilable with the other. She is credited with Salem Chape4 and she puts her name to Agnes, but while we ourselves made the mistake of......

Benaiah ; A Tale Of The Captivity. By Mrs. Webb.

(Jackson, Wal- ford, and Hodder.)—We suppose that there is a public which likes to see the Scripture characters put into a story and talking the language of the nineteenth......

The Literature Of The Sabbath Question. By Robert Cox,...

(Scot.) 2 vols. (Maclachlan and Stewart, Edinburgh ; Simpkin and Marshall, London.)—Is the Sabbath question passing into the hands of the anti- quaries?' If so, we could welcome......

The Plays Of Shakespeare. Edited By Charles And Mary Cowden

Clarke. VoL L Comedies. (Cassell.)—This is a very cheap edition of Shakespeare, and the type and paper are all that can be expeeted for the price. The editors' name, too, is a......

The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. By R. H. Newell. With

Notes and Introduction by E. P. Hingston. (Rotten.)—Mr. Newell, according to the editor of Artemus Ward, who writes the introduction to this book, is the satirist of the......

Brother Fabians Manuscript, And Other Poems. By Sebastian...

Evans has considerable power of diction, but not much novelty of idea. He has studied Browning, and with his assist- ance has produced some readable versions of old monkish......

Fides, The Beauty Of Mayence. Adapted From The German. By

Sir Lascelles Wraxall. (Hurst and Blackett.)—There are readers who. will be keenly interested in this story, readers who love memoirs, and old letters, and little glimpses into......

Transatlantic Sketches, Or Sixty Days In America....

volume contains some very vigorous sketches of life in America during the past year. The draughtsman starts from Liverpool, and begins with a couple of common-place drawings......