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The Darwinian Theory Examined. (bickers And Son.)—it

of coarse, easy enough to piok holes in Darwinism, and still easier to fling a feeble sort of ridicule at Mr. Darwin himself. Of this the book before us is a specimen. In the......

Goethe's Faust. Part I. Edited By E. J. Turner And

E. D. H. Morshead. (Rivingtons.)—This edition, the work of two Winchester Masters, is the result of an effort to teach German to the sixth form as Latin and Greek are taught,—by......

Novars.—through War To Peace. By Mrs. A. H. Manle. 3

vols. (Remington.)—The shape which Mrs. Mania or her publishers have chosen to give this story is hardly suitable to it. It is called a novel, and it appears accordingly in the......

Opens His First Chapter Dramatically With The Words, "the...

Imperial is dead," and proceeds to give a sensible and plain-s poken account of that event. That France suffered a great loss by that catastrophe, we cannot think, but that the......

On Board A Union Steamer. A Compilation. By Captain S.

P. Oliver. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—Here we have a curious combina- tion of the "grave and gay," the " grave " being, we think, by far the better and more readable of the two. The......