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Britta, A Shetland Romance, By George Temple (ishister),...

really powerful story. It professes to be a chapter in the autobio- graphy of Thomas Jack, a Scotch clergyman who settles in a Shetland parish—Mr. Temple writes of the Shetland......

Two By-paths In English History.* The Two Books We Have

bracketed together are singularly unlike in style and subject. Yet they resemble each other in three respects. They deal with what may be termed the personal as distin- guished......

Current Literature.

The Life and Labours of John Mercer, by Edward A. Parnell (Longman), is an interesting biography of a self-made man, who, if he did not quite reach the stature of Mr. Smiles's......