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of those aggressive articles which are the special:tie' of this

review,

designed to prove that the growth of the Christian religion, so far from being of divine or supernatural origin, is a perfectly natural and even inevitable phenomenon. Then we have notices of Eugene Sue's "Rival Races" and Mr. Bates's "Travels on the River Amazon," which are so small in size and so slight in texture that they appeared to have strayed from the section devoted to "Contemporary Literature" into the body of the work. The most readable and, we are inclined to think, the best article in the number, is one on "Gamesters and Gaming," which is, at least, amusing. We may also specify a paper entitled "Marriages of Consanguinity," which is designed to show the fallacy of the popular im- pression that marriages of this kind result ultimately in the degeneracy of the race.