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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......

A Comedy Without Laughter. By Percy Roes. (longmans.)—...

has two lovers, and the comedy, which at one time comes near to as much tragedy as modern life commonly admits, has for its subject the working out of the relations between......

The Throne Of The Fisherman. By Thomas W. Allies. (burns

and Oates.)—It is beyond our province to discuss the great question which Mr. Allies deals with in this volume. He sees in the supremacy of the Pope "the root, the bond, and the......

A Short History Of The Canadian People. By George Bryce,

M.A. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Bryce has given a history of Canada from the very earliest period. After a preliminary chapter on " The Dominion of Canada," in which he describes......

Tasozota—the Charter Of Christianity, By The Rev. Andrew...

(Hodder and Stoughton), is a full examination of the Sermon on the Mount, with a special view to the comparison of its ethical teaching with that of ancient moralists. It is......

The Picture Of Paul. By The Rev. Il R. Newels.

(C. Burnet and Co.)—The two first volumes of the series to which this belongs were reviewed in the Spectator a few months ago, and it is needless to do more than to say that our......