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The Kabbalah ; its Doctrines, Development, and Literature. An Essay, by Christian D. Ginsburg, LL.D. (Longmans.)—We cannot imagine any one wishing to know more about this......

Rates And Taxes. Edited By T. Hood. (groombridge.)—the...

who last year set a Bunch of Keys jingling to the satisfaction of the public, present themselves on the present* occasion in the guise of the collectors of rates and taxes for......

The Lite Of Man Symbolized By The Months Of The

Year in a Series of Illustrations. By John Leighton, F.S.A. With Passages selected from Ancient and Modern Writers by Richard Pigot. (Longmans.)— It is almost impossible to......

Hymns On The Holy Communion. By Ada Cambridge. With A

preface truer, and more ineffable communion with the Father it is a Feast." The tone of the hymns is in harmony with these ideas and similes, and they will be valued by those......

The Supremacy Question. An Essay. By The Rev. G. E.

Biber, LL.D. (Rivingtons.)—Dr. Biber is the champion of the Apostolical succession, and the episcopal supremacy that he derives from it. In the present essay he reviews the......

The Works Of The Ettrick Shepherd. New Edition. With...

tions. 2 vols. (Blaokie.)—These two handsome volumes containing the one Hogg's prose tales and the other his poetry, originally published in twenty-six shilling parts, are......

The Old Ledger. By G. L. M. Strauss. 3 Vols.

(Tinsley.)—Wading our way very tediously through the first volume, it struck us that the only thing wanting to carry out the illusion suggested by the name and the style was to......

Popular Romances Of The West Of England.* Tins Is Not

a book of fairy stories, such as would interest a child. It is a series of local tales and traditions, too fragmentary and dis- jointed to sustain interest as works of fiction.......

The Gothic And Anglo-saxon Gospels, In Parallel Columns,...

Ver- sions of Wycliffe and Tyndale. By Rev. J. Bosworth, D.D., Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Oxford. (J. R. Smith.)—The learned Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, with the......

The Hebrew Scriptures, Vol. Iii. Translated By Samuel...

(Whitfield, Green, and Son.)—This is the third and concluding volume of Mr. Sharpe's revised translation of the Old Testament. We observe here, as in the preceding volumes, that......