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Current Literature.

Fads of an Old Physician : a Sequel to "A Plea for a Simpler Life." By George S. Keith, M.D., LL D., &c. (A. and C. Black.)— There was much in Dr. Keith's " Plea for a Simpler......

A Young Congo Missionary : Memorials Of Sidney R. Webb,

M.D. By William Brock. (R. H. Allenson.)—S. R. Webb was one of the men who are marked out from early years by religions purpose. He had many interests, was something of an......

Magazines And Serial Publications.—we Have Received The...

: — The Century, Scribner's Magazine, St. Nicholas, the New Review, Macmillan's Magazine, India, Review of Reviews, Blackwood's Magazine, the Corn-hill Magazine, the Expository......

A Daughter Of The Pens. By J. T. Bealby. (t.

Fisher Davin.) —Mr. Bealby seeks to disarm criticism by telling us in his preface that his book does not profess to be a novel, but " only a story." In fact, it is a thread of......

Political Letters And Speeches Of The Thirteenth Earl Of...

(Bentley and Son.)—The Earl of Pembroke succeeded to his father's title in his boyhood, and so missed the advantage of serving an apprenticeship to politics in the House of......

Royal Academy And New Gallery Pictures, 1897 (black And...

Office); Pictures of 1897 (Pall Mall Gazette Office) ; Royal Academy Pictures, 1897, 5 Parts (Cassell and Co.); Art at the Royal Academy, Art at the New Gallery, Art at the......

The Magazines.

THE July number of the Contemporary is hardly of the first interest ; but it contains one article, signed " Quaesitor," and supposed to have been inspired by Mr. Labouchere,......

In The Kingdom Of Kerry, And Other Stories. By B.

M. Croker. (Chatto and Windus.)—The first of these seven stories is perfect in its way. Mary Shandhan is of the best type of Irish girl, witty, beautiful, with a tender heart,......

Publications Of The Week.

Allen (G.), An African Millionaire, cr 8vo (Richards) 6/0 Bryant (S.), The Teaching of Morality, cr 8vo (Sonnenschein) 8/0 Clarke (G.), Daily Salvation, or 5,o Crosby (F. T.).......