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A Little Book About Great Britain. By Azamat-batak....

Evans.)—Every one will have read or heard of the " Turk " who, under this name, gave us in the Pall Mall Gazette the benefit of some of his ideas about our manners and customs......

The Story Of Two Lives. By Winifred Taylor. (nimmo.)—this Is

a story, prettily told, of the lives of two women, one a noble lady, the other a poor cottager, who are born on the same day, whose lives are interwoven throughout, and who pass......

Acquitted. By Mrs. Gordon Smithies. 3 Vols....

her readers with an amazing abundance of incident; and if they do not care about its being in the highest degree impro- bable, and generally inconsequent and absurd ; and......

Fjord, Isle, And Tor. By Edward Spender. (charlton...

papers are reprints from the London Quarterly Review and other periodicals. They are sketches, which strike us as being in a remarkable degree practical and useful, of travel in......

The Week Of Creation. By George Warington (macmillan) Is A

very able vindication of the Mosaic cosmogony by a writer who unites the advantages of a critical knowledge of the Hebrew text and of distin- guished scientific attainments.......

The Student's Manual Of Irish History. By M. F. Cusack.

(Longmans.) —We mast know what object the " student " has before him before we can recommend this " manual " to him. If he wants to get a sketch of Irish history from an......

Jessie Grey, By L. G., And Katie Johnstone's Cross, By

A. M. M. (Oliphant), are both called "Canadian tales," though there is not much loeal colour about either of them. The latter of the two tells with some pathos how the weakness......

Mr. Binney's Sermons.*

Mn. BINNEY dedicates these sermons to his congregation, as a "small memorial of a ministry of forty years." Eighteen dis- courses, for the volume contains no more, cannot, of......

Current Literature.

The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer. Edited by E. H. Bickersteth, M.A. (Sampson Low.)—When there are so many hymn-books—the editor has used for this present work......