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An Artist's Proof. 3 Vols. By Alfred Austin. (tinsley...

—If Mr. Austin would leave out his rather tedious philosophical and artistic disquisitions, he would be able, we think, to produce a really good novel. The hero is a really......

Dorothy Firebrace; Or, The Armourer's Daughter Of...

author of Whitefriars. 3 vols. (Richard Bentley.)—The author has given us here a very bustling, readable novel, in which the historical characters are very wisely not made to......

The Pentateuch And The Gospels. By The Rev. J. L.

Porte; Belfast. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—One more addition to the list of refutations of Colenso. It has at all events one merit —brevity.......

Leonore, And Other Poems. By Lady Chatterton. (macmillan...

"How many pass through life, who have not learned to feel the• all- important interest in what is right or wrong, nor care to know in what consists the certain fatal mark—the......

Discussions On The Gospels. By Alexander Roberts, D.d....

(Macmillan and Co.)—Without pronouncing any opinion on the critical questions raised by this volume, we welcome a second edition. Dr. Roberta puts the arguments well in favour......

Fellow Of Worcester College, Oxon. (longman And Co.)—both...

are thoroughly well done, but Mr. Stebbing's is really more than an analysis. It is a readable and yet a very accurate epitome, not merely a help to the reader of the longer......

Current Literature..

—0— Moron's Miniature Poets. A selection from the works of Alfred Tennyson. (Edward Moron and Co., Dover Street, 1865.)--This is a well-selected and beautifully got up little......

Studies For Stories. 2 Vols. (alexander Strahan.)—this...

to bo the work of a lady of considerable literary reputation, and we suppose therefore that the title is a sort of warning that these tales are to ba regarded as parts of an......