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Current Literature.

The Adventures of Nevil Brooke; or, How India was IlTon for England. By C. J. Riethmiiller. 3 vols. (Bell and Sons.)—This is one of the old-fashioned sort of historical novels.......

Early English Poets.*

MR. GROSART is the most indefatigable of editors, the most enthusiastic of critics. He discovers exquisite poetical beauty in verses which to most readers appear simply quaint......

Weavers And Weft, And Other Tales. By The Author Of

"Lady Audley's Secret." 3 vols. (Maxwell.)—Miss Wadden mixes up, as is her wont, very potent ingredients,—love, jealousy, revenge, murder, and madness. But she does it with......

Footprints In The Snow. By Dora Russell. 3 Vols. (tinsley

Brothers.)—Elizabeth Gordon, who combines the attractions of great beauty and a nice little fortune, has three lovers. Two of them are brothers, sons of Sir John Tyrrell, the......

The Supremacy Of Man. (hamilton And Adams.)—the Author...

book as a suggestive inquiry into the philosophy and religion of the future. There is too much of mystical rhapsody about it, to suit our taste. Dogmatic religion, he thinks, is......

Outlines Of Lectures On The History Of Philosophy. By J.

J. Elmendorf. (New York, Putnam.)—This is a student's manual or syllabus of philo- sophy. It takes for granted that he is attending lectures in philosophy, and its object is to......