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The Brown Book For 1861. (saunders, Otley, And Co.)—the...

feature of this work is that it gives the names of a thousand of the chief streets in London, and the receiving-house, pillar box, money-order office, commissionaire, telegraph......

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Current Literature.

We have received a photograph of Mr. Laurence's admirable drawing of Mr. Thackeray. The power with which this picture seizes the characteristic expression both of Mr.......

The Pentateuch And Book Of Joshua Critically Examined. By...

Right Rev. John William Colenso, D.D., Bishop of Natal. Part IV. (Longman and Co.)—In this instalment of his work the Bishop examines critically the first eleven chapters of the......

Sermons Preached In Lincoln's Inn Chapel. By Rev. F. C.

Cook. (Murray.)—A volume of carefully written and sensible essays, very well adapted to the sleepy legality of mind which is the attribute of the Benchers of an Inn of Court. We......

The Derbyshire Red Book For 1864. Edited By Henry L.

Kemp. (Bemrose and Sons.) — This almanack is the perfection of an almanack for a Derbyshire man, and we do not doubt that in the county it will meet with the support it......

The Queen's English. By Henry Alford, D.d. (strahan And...

As journalists, we shall not be deterred by the severity of the censures of the Dean of Canterbury on the style of newspaper writers from frankly admitting that this is one of......

Who's Who In 1864. Edited By C. H. Oakes, Ma.

(A. H. Baily and Co.)—This useful old friend, now in its sixteenth year, shows no fall- ing off either in accuracy or in the care with which the information is is brought down......

Joseph Joubert.*

ONE would fain hope that the name and works of the good Joseph Joubert are better known to English readers than is sup- posed by the writer of a charming article in the last......