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The Volsung Tale. By F. Scarlet Potter. (martin, 9 Lisson

Grove.) —This little poem appears in a most modest guise, but it is ten times more worth reading than most of the volumes of "minor " poetry that reach us. Mr. Potter has no......

The Human Intellect.* To Read, Digest, And Reproduce In An

abridged form all the writings of all philosophers of note on every phase of the, intellect's activity ! What an undertaking ! It were superhuman not to have failed sometimes,......

The Shakespeare Treasury Of Wisdom And Knowledge. Charles...

M.D. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Shakespeare is, of all poets, the one whom one likes the best, or, as some doubtless would rather have it, dislikes the least, to read in extracts.......

Current Literature.

The Open Secret : Sermons. By the late Rev. A. J. Morris. (Miall.)— This is a volume of posthumous sermons, but they stand in little need of the indulgence which this......