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Lombard Street In Lent. By Various Preachers. (elliot...

It is quite impossible to criticise these sermons, more than twenty in number, and dealing with all the social subjects which have been debated during the last ten years and......

Archie Mckenzie. By J. Macdonald Oxley. (r.t.s.) — Our...

always describes his Canadian scenery and life with vigour and vividness, and this tale of the great fur-trading days, and Indians, and other dangers, will fascinate boys. The......

Lady Jane. By Mrs. C. - V: Jamison. (osgood, Mcilvaine, And

Co.)—This is one of the most delightful and delicately written stories for children that have been published since the appearance of "Little Lord Fauntleroy," which indeed it......

The Adventures Of Hans Midler. By Alice Lang. (r.t.s.) —...

is a vigorous and most interesting story of Luther's time. The hero having made himself objectionable to the priests, is kidnapped, and disappears for some time. He is released......

No Enemy (but Himself). By Elbert Hubbard. (g. P. Put-

nam's Sons.)—" The civilisation in our cities breeds disease, and it breeds cowards We wear our nerves outside of cur clothes, and we tremble at the rustle of a mortgage. In our......

Thoughts On The Epistles Of Holy Week. By "a Mother."

(J. Masters and Co.) — These are a series of eight short a Idresses written by a mother for children between the ages of eight and fourteen. As Mr. Eyton says of them in the......

Trees Planted By The River. By Frances A. Bevan. (nisbet

and Co.)—This is not exactly a book of devotion, but it is a book about the devout life, and of where its true ideal is to be found. Mrs. Bevan has studied her subject in books......

The Hero Of The Pelican.' By Percy De Lisle. (digby,

Long, and Co.)—The plot of this story was capable of being developed into a stirring sensation, but its treatment by Percy de Lisle can only be described as flat. It is far too......

Raymond's Polly. By E. St. John Leigh. (elliot Stock.)— This

is a book which recalls far too readily the Shakespearian "slight, unmeritable man, meet to be sent on errands." It is a well-intentioned, genuinely though not intrusively......

The New Number Of That Excellent Quarterly, The Law Magazine

and Review, contains several articles which are of a popular character. Thus, there are two on India by Sir Richard Garth and Mr. John Dacosta, and a most exhaustive paper on......