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Mr. Syme On Political Economy.*

POLITICAL economy has never been a popular science. Partly from the nature of its subject-matter, partly from the ungenial tone of some of its professors, it has succeeded in......

Courtship In 1720 And 1860. By Hawley Smart. 2 Vols.

(Chapman and HalL)—Mr. Hawley Smart has written two short stories, which, like most other stories, are about love-making, and finding it con- venient to publish them together,......

Studies In The Philosophy Of Religion And History. By A.

M. Fair- bairn. (Strahan and Co.)—Two of these " studies " have already appeared in the Contemporary Review. Mr. Fairbairn modestly de- scribes them as "tentative." We think he......

Ancient Streets And Homesteads Of England. By Alfred...

an Introduction by the Very Rev. J. S. Howson, D.D. (Macmillan.) —The only complaint that we have to make about this book is that there is not enough of it. It is a good-sized......

Current Literature.

The Races of Man, and their Geographical Distribution. From the German of Oscar Peschel. (Henry S. King and Co.)—" The proper study of mankind is man" has become proverbial, but......

A Practical Handbook To The Principal Schools Of England....

by Charles Eyre Pascoe. (Sampson Low and Co.)—A very useful little volume. It gives an account of more than forty schools, the selec- tion having been made with care, and it......

Daft Davie, And Other Sketches Of Scottish Life And...

By S. R. Whitehead. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—There is much merit in these stories, which are serious and humorous by turns. Perhaps the best, though the subject is not by any......

Tration, Is Examined With A Thoroughness Which Leaves...

be desired. The conclusion at which Mr. Birch arrives—and it has a cer- tain importance, as connected with the antiquity and authority of the Athanasian Creed—is that it cannot......