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Tasso's Enchanted Ground; The Story Of The "jerusalem...

this book wo have an excellent Idea, admirably car- ried out. No one who understands the Italian language well enough to read the celebrated epic of Tassel will ho deterred from......

Human Nature: A Mosaic Of Sayings, Maxims, Opinions, And Re-

flections on Life and Character. Selected and arranged by D. W. Mitchell. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)--This is an unusually good book of its kind. A good " mosaic " is not to be......

Bad Luck. By Albany Do Penhlongue. 3 Vols. (bentley.)—we...

accord to this novel the merit of a good plot. There will be but few readers but will be surprised at tho way in which the mystery is cleared up. It would be possible, indeed,......

Heroes Of Faith: Lectures On The Eleventh Chapter Of The

Epistle to the Hebrews. By C. J. Vaughan, D.D. (Macmillan and Co.)—Those lectures show the earnestness of spirit and thoroughness of work which characterise all Dr. Vaughan's......

Flowers Of The Free Lands. By Thomas Bracken. (mills, Dick,

and Co., Dimodin.)—This is a volume of short poems on a variety of themes, some of general, others of local interest, Several of these poems possess considerable intrinsic......

Nora : A Novel. Taken From The German By Princess

Mario Liech- tenstein. (Burns and Oates.)—Nora is not an uninteresting novel ; it is livelier and more attractive than most German stories of the :anti- mental order, and its......

Christianity And Islamism: The Bible And The Koran. By The

Rev, W. R. W. Stephen. (Bentley.)—Loctures delivered in the Cathedral Church of Chichester can scarcely have but one dominant fooling. No one can doubt to which of the two......

Current Literature.

Seonee ; or, Camp Life on the Satpura Range. By Robert Armi- tage Sterndale. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Seonoe is a district, con- sisting mainly of hill country, somewhat less in......