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The Christ Upon The Hill. A Ballad By Cosmo Monkhouse.

(Smith, Elder, and Co.)—It is not at all a reflection upon Mr. Cosmo Monkhouse, who has essayed with great daring and a con- siderable amount of success, to deal in " ballad"......

The Teaching Of Jesus. By R. F. Horton, D.d. (isbister

and Co.)— This book, without being quite so new or so important as Dr. Horton seems to think, is a decidedly good one. It is practically an effort to go back from Christendom to......

Current Literature.

A Memoir of Mrs. Augustus Craven (Pauline de la Ferronays), with Extracts from her Diaries and Correspondence. By Marie Catherine Bishop. Third Edition, in 1 vol. (Richard......

Episcopal Palaces Of England. By Edmund Venables And...

and Co.)—This volume is, we suppose, the last for which we shall- have to thank the learning and taste of the late Canon Venables. Of the eleven Bishops' palaces here described,......

The Magazines.

Mn. E. J. Mixon's articles on foreign politics, one of which he contributes to the Contemporary Review this month, leave on us the impression of exceedingly clever shallowness.......