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Shropshire Folk-lore. Edited By Charlotte Sophia Berne,...

of Georgina F. Jackson. Part II.—Miss Berne con- tinues this curious collection of the oddities of human thought with what would seem an unfailing supply of materials. These,......

Jan Vedder's Wife. By Amelia E. Barr. (james-clarke And...

This is a story of very great merit, with its.vivid pictures-of scenery and life,.and- ittepowerf al drawing. of charaeter. The scene is laidin - theShetiand Isles ; the time is......

Pastoral Comforts, By The Rev. J. D. Knowles (skengton), Is

a book designed to help the parish priest in ministering to the sick, not pretending, as the, author is careful to inform UP, to be a complete manual for pastoral visitation,......

A Strange Marriage. By Helen Falconer. 2 Vols. ,...

Co.)—It is not easy-to say anything-more about this novel than that the title is well deserved by the contents. To speculate whether the strangeness passes the bounds of......

Lecture On Ireland. By An English Lady. (w. 31: Moorish,

Bristol.)—The "English Lady" tells. the story of the "woes and. difficulties" of Ireland in a spirit which reminds one of the descrip- tion of the English in old time. She is......

The Imitation Of Christ, Fiom The Autograph Manuscript Of...

ii Kempis. With Introduction by Charles Rueleus. (Elliot Stock.) —This little volume is' faasimile- of the manuscript of the " De Imitatione," written in the autograph of Themes......