6 OCTOBER 1877, page 23

One Naturally Expects To Have Books About Christ's...

this time. Accordingly we have The Blue - Goat Boys ; or, School Lift in Christ's Hospital, with a short history of the foundation, by William Harnett Blanch (C. W. Allen); and......

Current Literature.

Essentials of English Grammar. By W. D. Whitney. (Henry S. king and Co.)—The author's book on the life and growth of language is n guarantee for his ability to treat tho......

Some Of The Magazines.

BY far the most interesting paper in the magazines of this month is Mr. Gladstone's singular essay upon the Colour-sense, in the Nineteenth Century. Mr. Gladstone is under the......

Horace's Li:a And Character. By R. M. Hovenclen....

of Horace's special charms is that he tolls us BO much about him- self, and his tastes and sentiments, with the most delightful frankness. Of all the authors of antiquity, he......

Analysis Of Austin's Jurisprudence. By Gordon Campbell....

tho science of law, is is subject which, for some reason or other, ban not boon systematically treated by many English lawyers. Bentham and the late Mr. Austin are, of course,......

South By East : Notes Of Travel In Southern Europe.

By G. F, Rod- well. (Marcus Ward.)—Mr. Rodwell makes, it is evident, good use of his holidays. Travel is not always a neoftil way of employing them. It may, unless discreetly......