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A Plea For A New Translation Of The Scriptures. By

Alfred Dewes, M.A., with a Translation of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. (Long- mans.)—Mr. Dewes writes in a very trenchant style, anti is pleasantly sarcastic on the......

The Company And The C?own. By Hon. T. J. Howell-thurlow.

(Blackwood.)--This very readable volume contains much useful infor- mation about the various divisions of the Indian Government, slight resanas of the causes and events that......

The Prison Life Of Jefferson Davis. By Lieutenant -...

Craven, M.D. (Sampson Low, Son, and Marston.)—The good-natured lieutenant-colonel doctor, who had the difficult task assigned to him of ministering to the diseased mind and body......

The Fortnightly Review, October (chapman And Hall), Has...

writing in it ; amongst other articles of some note, one by Mr- Lewes, the editor, on Mill and Comte, which is thoughtful and dis criminating, and should be valued by the......

Selection From The Works Of Winthrop Mad-worth Prete&...

Sir G. Young, Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. (Moxon.)— Without discussing at length, as the editor does in his able preface, the distinction between poetry and verse, and......

The Life Of The Marehesa Falletti Di Barolo. By Silvio

Pellico. From the original. By Lady Georgians Fullerton (Bentley.)—This very graceful volume, commendable alike in form and essence, is a becoming tribute to a great......

We Accepted At Once The Sors Tupperiana, And Feel Assured,

in the exercise of faith rather than of reason, that there is good necessity for the flourishing of "P roverbial philosophy." We hope that we shall thus escape the designation......

The Resources, Products, And Industrial History Of...

Midland Hardware District. A series of reports. Edited by Samuel Tim- mins. (Hardwicke.)—The meeting of the British Association at Birming- ham in 1865 led to the formation of a......