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Christian Ballads. By Arthur Cleveland Come, D.D. Reviged edition, illustrated

by J. A. Hews, R. Hooper, and others. (Sampson Low, Son,

and Marston.)—An importation from New York, where the ballads were published, it seems, twenty five-years ago. They are so severely criti- cized by the author himself in his preface that it would be ungracious to nay anything further, whore criticism could only point out shortcom- ings, not faults. The illustrations are many of them very beautiful, though there is rather a tendency to a Rembrandtesque use of deep shadow,—a device seldom successful when the high lights are not helped

by the presence of colour. - , _ -