7 DECEMBER 1889, page 37

Current Literature.

Australia, America, Africa, Asia, and the Aryan peoples. In these first six chapters we get a concise and critical summary of the general views as to definition of kinship.......

Robert Brett (of Stoke Newington) : His Life And Work.

By T. W. Belcher, D.D., D.M. (Griffith and Farran.)—Mr. Brett, a medical man by profession, is chiefly known as the unflinching advocate of High Church ritual at a time when......

The Magazines.

Sin W. W. HUNTER concludes " The Old Missionary " in this . month's Contemporary Review. It is by far the best story of the kind ever told, and indicates in its author the......

Blooms And Brambles : A Book Of Verses. By Edgar

Fawcett. (Elliot Stock.)—The critic whose lot it has been to read much of the verse produced by our minor poets will be struck by the great facility displayed in versification,......