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The Magazines.

ON the whole, the Nineteenth. Century is the most readable of the half-crown magazines. Its reputation in this respect is sustained, however, not by one of those celebrities to......

A Woman With A Past, By Mrs. Berens (chapman And

is a very unpleasant novel, showing the writer to have an intimate know- ledge of certain social "circles," but full of millinery and slang, and vulgarity of sentiment. There......

Current Literature.

There is an air of dryness about The Church and the People (gee- niven and Wallace, Edinburgh), which is the sixth series of "The St. Giles's Lectures," in connection with, and......

School Work. By F. J. Gladman. (jerrold And Sons.)—these Two

volumes are likely t3 be of considerable value to the managers and teachers of elementary schools. The writer had considerable experience in teaching in London before he went to......