9 JULY 1864, page 23

A Plea For The Abolition Of Tests In The University

of Oxford. By Goldwin Smith. (Wheeler and Day.) A Letter on Southern Independence . By Goldwin Smith. (Macmillan and Co.)—The opinions of the Regius Professor of Modern History......

Books Received.

Mysterious Legends of Edinburgh, by Alexander Leighton (William Nimmo)—Quits, by the Author of Initials ; Nothing Venture Nothing Have, by Anne Beale, 3 vole ; Memoirs of......

Speculative Notes And Notes On Speculation. By D. Morier...

(Groombridge and Sons.)—Everybody likes to read about money and money-making, and they will find what they like here in the lightest and most readable form. The first paper is a......

The History, Position, And Treatment Of The Public...

Ireland. By an Irish Archivist. (J. Russell Smith.)—A slashing attack on the two volumes of a calendar of the Irish State Papers which were pub- lished by Mr. Morrin, a clerk in......

Co.)—unlike The Harmonies With Which Most English Readers...

Dr. Wieseler does not set out the texts of the Gospels piece- meal in parallel columns, but sets himself to ascertain the date of the leading events in our Lord's life, and then......

Shakespeare's Garden. By Sidney Beisly. (longman And...

publication, which will nevertheless be welcome to a certain class of readers. The introduction has absolutely nothing to do with the subject of the essay, and contains no......