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Sentenced By Fate. By Selwyn Eyre. 3 Vols. (tinsley.)—the...

promises an exciting story, a tragio tale of virtue struggling against pitiless destiny, or of crime vainly endeavouring to escape a just retri- bution. The drat volume made it......

Current Literature.

The Other Life. By W. H. Holcombe, M.D. (Triibner.)—If any one wants to get in a small compass the substance of SwedenborgSs philosophy on this subject he cannot do better than......

A Common-place Critic.*

Mit. GRAHAM'S volume is marked by industry and accuracy, but for any of the higher qualifications demanded from the historian of literature and art we look in vain in these......

Janice Gordon's Wife. 8 Vols. (hurst And Bleakett.)—the...

an ordinary one enough, with the incidents too obviously arranged to suit a moral ; but it is told with a force and a liveliness which altogether redeem the book from the charge......

The Anti - Septic System. By Arthur Ernest Sansom, M.d....

is a volume which Dr. Salmons has put together with groat indus- try and care, and which is worthy of note. The details of the discussions into which it enters are of a more......

Astronomy Simpluied For General Reading. By J. A. S....

(Tegg.)—We do not exactly understand what the author means when he hopes that the " distinctiveness" of this volume will form the best justification for its appearance. We have......