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Tanities Of Estimating Its Value As A Factor In Human

life from practical experience. Hence his book is more than an:essay. He dwells on the history of the religion, and he goes into fall details of its system. In fact, he has......

Meadow Sweet. By Edwin Whelpton. 3 Vols. (smith And Elder.)

—This pastoral, as the author calls it, truly deserves its name. It is a pastoral, too, of the genuine kind. We have no Damon and Amaryllis, but Hodge and Madge, true country......

Busby, And Its Neighbourhood. By The Rev. W. Ross, Ll.d.

(Bryce and Son, Glasgow.)—This is one of the books which are now becoming more and more common, and which are always welcome. These parish histories give us a better insight......

Mr. D. De Carteret Bisson Republishes Our Schools And...

(Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—This "eighth edition" has attained an almost gigantic bulk, its two volumes containing some two thou- sand pages. It is true that the second volume,......

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