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Circumstantial Evidence. By J. H. Swingler. (digby And...

is a sensational story of the meet familiar type, for there is absolutely nothing in it to interest one except the question, who murdered Mr. G. W. Masters, of .Hillside, who......

Tales Of Black Country Life. By David Hobbs. (elliot Stock.)

—The scene of these tales is " Slagtown," and " Slagtown " is supposed to be in the Black Country of Scotland, of which Mr. Hobbs claims to be the first chronicler. His tales......

Life In Arcadia. By J. S. Fletcher. (john Lane.)—these...

of rural life are graphic and pleasing. Mr. Fletcher has judiciously put his " Tragedy " together so that we can take as much or as little of it as our liking suggests. As to......

The Lessons Of Holy Scripture (prayer - Book)....

Verse. By the late Rev. J. H. Wanklyn, M.A.- Vols. V. and VI., illustrating the " Second Lesson," one volume being given to the Gospels, the other to the Acts and Epistles.......

Chap - Wsfroin Awe. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. (j....

Phelps tells us that she has never learnt anything from critics. This may be so. She may not be teachable. Among her, many high qualities this may be wanting. •. She further......

Side Lights On Shakespeare. By L. Rossi And C. M.

Corbonld. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—In this volume we have many interesting suggestions as to the interpretation and purpose of Shakespeare's work. To discuss them would take......

Boons Received. — Ourselves In Relation To A Deity And A...

(G. Redway.)—The Chief End of Man. By George S. Merriam. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) — The Greatest Need of the Age. By B. A. Watchman. (T. Williams.)—Revolutionary Tendencies of the......

Magazines And Serial Publications. — We Have Received The...

: — The Century, Scribner's Magazine, St. Nicholas, the New Review, Macmillan's Magazine, India, Review of Reviews, Blackwood's Magazine, the CornhiU Magazine, the New Century......