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Takes Ns Down To The Reign Of Ahab, Of Which,

by a somewhat incon- venient arrangement, it includes a part only. It is, like those that have gone before it, full of suggestion and illustration. Dr. Eders- helm brings to his......

The Magazines.

THERE is a fair average of merit in the Magazines this month, but nothing above a fair average. The Fortnightly leads off, with a calm and moderate article by Justice Longfield......

We Have To Notice A New Edition Of Selections From

the Kur-cin, by Edward and William Lane. (Triihner.)—To this well-known book Mr. Stanley Lane Poole has added an excellent introduction, in which he discusses " the Arabs before......

The Long.absent Squire At The Stile, In The Usual Fashion

which we know so well. There are the accustomed complications, a little more enlarged than usual, the self-sacrifice, and the satisfactory ending. It is a fairly well-written......

Current Literature.

ford.)—This little book will be of inestimable advantage to editors, whips, and politicians of all classes. There has been nothing so difficult to get as a short and compendious......

Shakespeare's Knowledge And Use Of The Bible. By Charles...

worth, D.C.L., Bishop of St. Andrew's. (Smith and Elder.)--This is a third edition, to which the learned author has added some additional illustrations, and some corrections and......