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The Pageant Of Life. By George Barlow. (swan Sonnenschein...

Co.)—The spirit of this extraordinary "epic poem in five books," which treats of life and love and sin and misery, and in which "Christ" and " Satan " figure as rival......

Old Chelsea, By Benjamin Ellis Martin (t. Fisher Unwin), Is

emphatically a pretty book,—pretty in the spirit in which it is written, pretty in its vivid and yet idealising if not idealistic illustrations, which are executed by Mr. Joseph......

The Co - Operative Traveller Abroad. By Edward Owen...

are by no means at one with this author and his friends in their views of socio-economical questions ; certain points of difference in opinion between us are, indeed, alluded to......

The Preachers Of Scotland, From The Sixth To The Nineteenth

Century, by William Garden Blaikie, D.D. (T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh), consists of a series of essentially historical lectures on Scotch divines of various persuasions, who have......

The Pulpit Commentary. (kegan Paul, Trench, And Co.)—the...

before us takes in II. Samuel. The Exposition is contributed by the Dean of Canterbury, the Homiletics by the Rev. Professor C. Chapman, and the Homilies by the Rev. B. Dale,......

Spring Days. By George Moore. (vizetelly And Co.)—we...

regret that a literary artist of such undoubted power as the creator of Gwynnie Lloyd in "A Modern Lover," should think it his duty to persevere in writing " realistic " novels.......

Although Unele , 2'ont's Tenement, By Alice Wellington...

Smythe Company, Boston, U.S.A.), is described on the title-page as " a , novel," and although a not unambitious attempt is made in it to depict "society - ," Bohemian and other,......