5 JULY 1884, page 31

The Magazines.

THE Magazines are not striking this month, though, of course, there are good papers scattered here and there. The best, perhaps, are in the Contemporary, where M. Gabriel Monod......

That We Would Speak) As One Who Is Thoroughly Hostile,

but who believes in the reality of the phenomena which it claims to have the power of exhibiting. He brings much learning to bear upon the subject, and he tells us many curious......

Poetry.—the Morning Song : A Ninefold Praise Of Love. By

John Watkins Pitchford. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Pitchford's verse has a certain stately march which does not ilL befit the lofty themes on which he discourses. For the subject of......

St. Mark's Gospel, By Professor Lindsay, D.d. (t. And T.

Clark), is one of the valuable series of " Handbooks for Bible Classes and Private Students" which is being edited by Dr. Marcus Dods and Dr. Alexander White. It is a careful......

The Works Of John Keats. Edited By Harry Buxton Forman.

(Reeves and Turner.)—" The text and arrangement of the present edition of Keats' poetry," writes Mr. Forman in his preface, "are those of the library edition which has recently......

Current Literature.

Sussex Folk and Sussex Ways. By the Rev. J. Coker Egerton, M.A., Rector of Burwash. (Sussex Advertiser Office, Lewes ; Trlibner and Co., London.)—There is, perhaps, no county......

The Canterbury Tales. By Frank Pitt Taylor. (chapman And...

Pitt Taylor has modernised here twelve of the Canterbury Tales, acting on the principle of making as little change as possible, and differing, therefore, very widely from the......