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The Conflict Of Christianity. By Dr. Uhlhorn. Edited And...

lated. (Sampson Low and Co.)—We recommend this book, which is the work of a German Lutheran pastor of considerable learning, to students of Church history. The author has made......

Food And Home Cookery, By Catherine M. Backton (longman),...

the course of instruction followed in the Board Schools at Leeds ; and so excellent is it, that if every household in the kingdom possessed the book, and the presiding genius of......

Pliny's Letters. Book Hi. By J. E. B. Mayor. (macmillan

and Co.)—Some of Pliny's most interesting letters are contained in this book. There is the letter in which he gives a detailed account of his uncle's various and numerous works,......

Robert Hall. By The Rev. E. Paxton Hood. (hodder And

Stoughton.)—It is not likely that many people now-a-days read Robert Hall's sermons, but the man himself is not by any means for- gotten. Mr. Hood does good service, when he......

Domestic Economy And Household Science. By Robert James...

late Superintendent of Education at Natal. (Edward fitanford.)—Amongst the many good aid useful books lately pub- lished on these subjects, the one before us seems particularly......

Genoa ; How The Republic Rose And Fell. By J.

Theodore Bent. (C. Began Peal and Co.)—Mr. Bent's work on Genoa is another proof of the reaction against a Teutonic despotism in literature which began a few years ago. Taylor......

The Political, Social, And Literary History Of Germany....

Rev. Dr. Cobham Brewer, Trinity Hall, Cambridge. (De la Rue and Co.)—This history being comprehensive, reaching "from the commencement to the present day," one wonders that it......