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Old And New London. By Walter Thornbury. Vol. Ii. (cassell

and Co.)—This volume even exceeds its predecessor in interest. Mr. Thornbury takes us past London Bridge, itself a sufficient topic for a volume, Billingsgate, the Tower, the......

Current Literature.

The Dublin Review for January is not so interesting as usuaL There is a very learned and solid article on "Gnosticism and the Rule of Faith in St. Irenasus," which for special......

The Holy Bible, Prepared For The Use Of Theological Students

(Fronde), is a convenient volume, giving a wide margin for notes and space for an alphabetical index, which the student is to construct for himself. The marginal references and......

An English Grammar. By Professor Maetzner. (murray.)—this...

elaborate work, which only the patience of a German professor could have brought to completion. It is an exhaustive treatise, from every conceivable point of view, on the......

The Georgics Of Virgil. By H. M. Wilkins. (longmans.)—mr....

edition is for schoolboy use. The Georgics, he thinks, are more attractive to lads than the " Eclogues" or even the " /Eneid." This, per- haps, is because of their descriptions......

Treatment. A Stranger, Mr. Harold, Comes To Settle In The

heroine's neighbourhood. At first he is reserved ; then he seems to yield to her attractions; finally he proposes marriage, and is accepted. He had held aloof because a marriage......

Pharmacographia. By Friedrich A. Flfickiger And Daniel...

an exhaustive book on its subject, the "History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin mot with in Great Britain and British India." The botanical description, the......