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Louis Spohr's Autobiography. Translated From The German....

the words of the translator, this is "a true account and lively picture of Spohr's earthly career from his cradle (which was. required in 1784) to that grave " which, alas I......

Supramundane Facts In The Life Of The Rev. Jesse Babcock

Ferguson, A..11., LL.D., including Twenty Years' Observation of Preternatural Phenomena. Edited by J. L. Nichols, M.D. (F. Pitman.)—Dr. Fergu- son is the transcendental......

The Cromwellian Settlement Of Ireland. By John P....

(Longmans.)—This is an account of the proceedings under that famous Act of Parliament of the Commonwealth in 1653, by which "all the ancient estates and farms of the people of......

The Phenomena Of Radiation As Exemplifying The Wisdom And...

ficence of God. By G. Warington, F.C.S. (Skeffington.)—Every seven years since 1838 the Royal Institution has had the duty assigned to it of awarding a prize of one hundred......

David Four Sermons Preached Before The University Of...

Charles Kingsley, M.A. (Macmillan.)—Thoroughly Kingsleian, and not very satisfactory. Mr. Kingsley maintains that David's curses on his enemies were both acts of vindictive......

Poems. By Novas Homo. (oxford : Wheeler And Day.) —there

is a certain touch of promise in some of these verses, at least if they are, as -doubtless they are, by a very young man, but there are none in the little volume which express......

Arystffications. By Clementine Stirling Grahame. Edited...

(Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas.)—A very curious record of Miss Grahame's wonderful power in assuming characters widely separated from her own both by difference of age and......