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The Rock Ahead. By Edmund Yates. 3 Vols. (tinsley Brothers.)

—This is decidedly the weakest of Mr. Yates's novels, and while aiming at being highly sensational it fails in sustained power in that direction. The author has taken, as one of......

Sacred Sketches. By W. Aubrey Cutting, M.a. (macintosh ;...

Norwich.)—This is a neat little volume of prose and verse, both of fair merit, so arranged as to illustrate tho Christian year. It seems to have been intended for the circle of......

Me Interference Theory Of Government. By Charles Astor...

and Holt: New York.)—This is a vehement protest against the "paternal" system by which a government undertakes to look after the morals of its citizens, and especially against......

Aids To Prayer. By Daniel Moore, M.a. (rivingtons.)—this...

a course of six Lent lectures on the subject of prayer delivered in the Church of which Mr. Moore is the incumbent. They are, on the whole, able discourses, and maintain the......

One Too Many. 3 Vols. (saunders And Otley.)—objectors To The

ultra- sensationalism of modern novels are gravely informed that "truth is stranger than fiction." This answer is held to be so sufficient and has been so often repeated of......