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Current Literature.

Biblical Studies. By E. H. Plumptre, M.A. (Strahan.)—This volume is one of the very highest interest and value to all students of the Bible. It carries out on a larger scale the......

Miss Sewell And Miss Young Give Us A Second Volume

of their European History. (Macmillan.)—Their plan is to tell their story in "a series of historical selections from the best authorities," an admirable notion, which they carry......

Rich And Rare. By Lucius O'b. Blake. 2 Vols. (newby.)—this

" Tale of Anglo-Italian Life " is unequal in quality. Some of the cha- racters are drawn naturally and truthfully ; here and there we are met by caricature. Such is Mrs.......

Messrs. Novelle Publish An Edition Of Beethoven's Opera...

a. volume which is to be the first of a projected series of standard operas, Anber's Fra Diavolo and Mozart's Don Giovanni being announced as its immediate successors. The......

The Elements Of Mechanism, By T. W. Goodeve (longman), Is

a rewritten and enlarged edition of a work which has already had con- siderable success. It now appears as part of a series (Text-Books of Science), which is being published......

Sundays At School. By S. A. Pears, D.d. (hatchards.)—this Is

a volume of "Short Sermons preached in Repton School Chapel," by the Head Master, worthy of much praise as sensible, plain-spoken addresses, by one who knows what he means, and......

Kelly's London Directory, 1871. What Can We Say Of Kelly's

Directory, except that it grows every year more huge and more accurate, that it is marvellously close to time, and that it never by any chance fails to do- what it professes to......