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Of Technical Books We Have Received :—sprains: Their...

Treatment. By C. W. Mansell Moak!. (II. K. Lewis.)—It would have been as well to say expressly whether they aro in- tended for the profession or for lay readers. There are......

Charles Haddon Spurgeon. By G. Holden Pike. (hodder And...

posthumonsbiographies are commonly too laudatory, what shall we say of those that are published in the subject's lifetime ? However, it is the fashion of the time, and it is......

Fashionable Philosophy, And Other Sketches. By Laurence...

and Sons.)—This volume displays in a remarkable way the versatility of this writer. "The Brigand's Bride" is a most charming little story, with merits curiously different from......

Farthing Dinners, By George Herbert Sargent (simpkin And...

an interesting little pamphlet, relating some really wonderful results. "The very cheapest dinners," he says, " are by far the most popular." What are these dinners ? may be......

Passions Subdued. By Louisa Lacy. (london Literary...

a very quaint book. Brongh Duval is left in charge of two brothers much younger than himself, whom he trains by a liberal one of the horsewhip. Brough had very decided views. He......

Witnesses For Christ. By Edward Baokhouse And George...

vole. (Hamilton, Adams, and Co.)—These two volumes are, in fact, a fragmentary Church history, giving an account of prominent per- sonages and events during a period of about......

Ancient Egypt. By George Rawlinson, M.a. (t. Fisher...

volume is one of a series which has more than once been noticed in our columns, "The Story of the Nations." Something more, perhaps, might have been said about Egyptian......

The Reformed Church Of Ireland (1537-1886). By The Right...

P. F. Ball. (Longmans, London ; Hodges, Figgie, and Co., Dublin.) —Dr. Ball's volume is a contribution of some value to ecclesiastical history, especially as regards the......

The Misrule Of Henry Iii. ; And Edward Iii. And

his Wars,--the first edited by the Rev. W. H. Hatton, the second by W. J. Ashley, M.A. (David Nutt),—belong to a series which is appearing under the super- intendence of Mr.......

We Have Received The Fifth Volume Of The Expositor. Edited

by the Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll, M.A.: (Hodder and Stonghton.)—No papers are more interesting than those is which Professor Sunday disousees "The Origin of the Christian......

Scott's Poems. (david Bryce And Son, Glasgow.)—here Are...

poems in six miniature volumes, enclosed in a case. The case and all weigh together something less than 10 oz., and can be conveniently carried in a coat-pocket ; the separate......