An Easter Vacation. By Moira O'neill. (lawrence And...
is a somewhat complicated story of love-making, which it will require a more than usual interest in that subject to follow with undisturbed patience. It is well-written,......
Byways Of The Scottish Border. By George Eyre-todd....
Selkirk.)--This is a narrative, touched with poetical emotion, of a walk that the author took in the autumn of 1586 with an artist friend, eastward from Moffat, through some of......
The Champion Of England.* Mr. Loinie ]:as Given Us Here
an interesting book, some- what gossipy and digressive, it is true, and occasionally more likely to be appreciated by neighbours than by the general public. lie tells a story......
Current Literature.
With Captain Stairs to Katanga. By J. A. Moloney. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Dr. Moloney accompanied Captain Stairs as medical officer in the expedition of the Katanga, Company to......
Kiirschner's Deutscher Litteratur-kalender, (kiirselmer's...
so full an account of Professor Kiirschner's admirable Literary Calendar, which con- tains every desirable information respecting living German authors and literary institutions......
History Of Marlborough College. By A. G. Bradley, A. C.
Champneys, and J. W. Baines. (John Murray.) — A book of three hundred and twenty-three pages devoted to the history of a school only fifty years old must needs be of the nature......
A Modern Agrippa. By Caroline C. White. (j. B. Lippincott,
Phila- delphia.)—" Agrippa," it must be understood, is not the Jewish King, first or second of the name, but Cornelius, the magician. One of the heroines has a magic......
A Short Proof That Greek Was The Language Of Christ.
By Professor Roberts, D.D. (Alexander Gardner.)—The "short proof" is substantially this, that Christ in his discourses commonly appeals to the Scriptures as writings with which......
The Synoptic Problem. By Alfred J. Jolley. (macmillan And...
Jolley's theory is something of this kind. There was a Primitive Gospel written about the beginning of the last Jewish war. This he reconstructs out of the Synoptic Gospels. It......
The Princess's Private Secretary. Translated From The...
G. Barilli, by his honour Judge Stephen. (Digby, Long, and Co.)—Lucio Gualandi, a native of Pisa, well-born but very poor, takes the office of private secretary to a Princess, a......
The Heirloom; Or, The Descent Of Vernwood Manor. By T.
Duthie- Lisle. 3 vols. (Gay and Bird.)—There is plenty of bad and in- different work in literature, especially in fiction, but there are few books in which a recklessly amiable......
From Philistia : Essays On Church And World. By J.
Brierley, B.A. (Clarke and Co.)—Thoso essays will be found well worth reading. The first gives as well-balanced an estimate of Rabelais as is to be found in literature ; the......
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