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Memorials Of George Elms Corns, D.d. Edited By M. Holroyd.

(Cambridge University Press.)—Dr. Corrie was an admirable specimen of the old-style "Head of a House," a species which, we should imagine, survives more at Cambridge than at the......

Word - Studies In. The New Testament. By Marvin R....

(Nisbet and Co.)—This second volume of his work Pro- fessor Vincent devotes to the writings of St. John. Naturally he prefaces it with an introduction, of which the main......

Arius The Libyan. (appleton And Co., New York And London.)

—This "Romance of the Primitive Church" is a volume of the " Town and Country Library." It is noticeable, apart from its other qualities, as an effort to put a heretic's case......

Glances At Great And Little Men. By" Paladin." (sampson...

—An irritating prefatory note goes far towards destroying the value of a book that is clever and entertaining. We are told that the volume is written in the first person as a......

The Care Of The Skin. By F. Augustus Cox, M.b.

(Alexander and Shepheard.)—Mr. Cox gives a number of useful hints about baths and bathing; a large subject when all the varieties of the bath are considered,—soaps, cosmetics,......

Pages In Fac-simile From A Fourteenth-century...

(Rivingtons.)—The book of which specimens are here given was a "Prayer-Book in English for the use of the Laity, containing the Calendar, Hours of the Virgin, the Lord's Prayer,......

Love And Disbelief. By J. Yule Cleland. (roper And Drowley.)

—This book is described on the title-page as "a novel," and in a remarkably complacent preface the author, who "has for some years been viewing from a somewhat advantageous......

Penological And Preventive Principles. By William...

Tallack's subjects, as exhibited in his table of contents, include all the questions which are commonly discussed in reference to the prevention and punishment of crime. He......

Tales Of Old Scotland. By Charles Rampini. (macniven And...

Edinburgh.)—This is a rather disappointing book to be. produced by a Scotch Sheriff-Substitute who is also entitled to write " F.S.A. Scot." after his name. It is neither more......