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Current Literature.

The Celtic Church of Scotland. By John Dowden, D.D. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.)—This is a handy little volume by the Bishop of Edinburgh, upon a comparatively......

The Poetical Works Of Thomas Parnell. Edited, With Memoir...

Notes, by George A. Aitken. (George Bell and Sons.)—Parnell, a beneficed Irish clergyman, was one of the Queen Anne wits, and his gifts as a verseman have been amply honoured by......

Anthony Langsyde. By Olive Birrell. (osgood, Moilvaine,...

of this rather too closely packed volume describes it, n ot quite accurately &haps, as " a modern love-story." Certain of the characters, indeed, talk in a quite fin de sitIcle......

The Monk Of Mir Saba. By Joseph Hocking. (ward, Lock,

Bowden, and Co.)—Mr. Hocking has shown decided originality in selecting the wilderness of Judrea and the Sea of Galilee as the scenes of the two romances—" The Monk of Mir Saba"......

The Magazines,

BEBIDES Mr. Gladstone's article, which we have dealt with in another column, there are several good papers in the Nineteenth Century. Mr. W. L. Alden (late American......