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The Action Of Exa1viinations.* It Was High Time To Have

a book about Competitive Examinations, written by one well acquainted with their working. We have had forty years' experience of them at Universities—we count from the......

Birds And Poets, With Other Papers. By John Burroughs. (hurd

and Houghton, New York ; Traner, London.)—We like Mr. Burroughs better when he is talking about birds (some of our readers may have as pleasant a remembrance of a previous work,......

Current Literature.

The Life and Teachings of Theodore Parker. By Peter Doan. (Williams and Norgate.)—This is a remarkably interesting book. So. much, indeed, considering the nature of its subject,......