3 SEPTEMBER 1870, page 22

CURRENT LITERATURE Heroes of Hebrew History. By S. Wilberforce, D.E., Lord Bishop of Winchester. (Strahan.)—An orator, for such the Bishop of Winchester unquestionably is, puts......

Mr. Wilkins' Translations From Thucydides The Speeches In...

about a fourth part of the whole work, if we exclude the eighth book, in which none are found. It would not be too much to say that, whether we regard their historical value or......

John ; Or, The Apocalypse Of The New Testament. By

Philip S. Deaprez. • (Longmans.)—This book is a -" retractatien." The writer was once an interpreter of what we may call the "extreme preterist" school,—that is, he believed......

Poems. By James Rhoades. (macmillan.)—we Do Not Find It Easy

to estimate the value of these poems. They are not to be reckoned among the ordinary verses, passably good, both as to metre and as to sense, which it is a common accomplishment......