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The Magazines.

No one has as yet sung fittingly the Jubilee Ode. The Poet- Laureate's was a failure ; and Mr. Swinburne's, which is a hymn to England, not to her Queen, though it contains some......

Ralph Waldo Emerson : His Maternal Ancestors. By David...

Haskins, D.D. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Dr. Haskins quotes on his title-page an appropriate sentence, "Every man in a bundle of his ancestors," and proceeds to give us some......

Angling Reminiscences Of The Rivers And Lochs Of...

Thomas Tod Stoddart. (Hamilton, Adams, and Co.)—This is a new edition, published fifty years after the first appearance of the work. It is for the most part written in the......

Current Literature.

Gleanings from a Tour in Palestine and the East. By Charles D. Bell, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The friend who advised Dr. Bell to publish these recollections of his travels......