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Across The Zodiac.*

ONLY the highest order of minds has undertaken successfully that kind of imaginative work to which this book belongs. Shakespeare, in The Tempest, has temperately and without......

Songs Of The Hebrew Poets, In English Verse : The

Life of David. By the Rev. J. Benthall, Vicar of Willen, Bucks. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The author of this volume appears to have had two objects in view. The first, which is to......

The Imitation Of Christ. Fac-simile Edition. (elliot...

and bound edition, in imitation of the original, preserved in the Royal Library at Brussels. Every sheet has been reproduced by photography, and the paper is identical with that......

The Gentle Shepherd : A Pastoral Comedy. By Allan Ramsay,

with Portrait and Twelve Engravings by David Allan, and a Glossary. (W. and A. K. Johnston.)—This is a very handsome edition of a poem which many people talk about, but very......

Vivian, The Beauty. By Mrs. Edwards. 1 Vol. (bentley And

Son.) —Mrs. Edwards will be fortunate if she does not make an enemy or two of the various "professional beauties," who will fit on the cap she has here offered for competition.......

Current Literature.

British Quarterly Review. January. (Hodder and Stoughton.)— The place of honour in this number is worthily occupied by an article from the pen of Dr. Freeman, "The Lords of......