16 OCTOBER 1886, page 24

Eastern Life And Scenery.*

BETWEEN the City of the Sultans thirty years ago and the Constantinople which is to-day familiar to thousands of English travellers, there is a difference which contradicts the......

Current Literature.

Church Quarterly Review, October. (Spottiswoode and Co.)—The first article in this number, bearing the title "Expansion or Dis- ruption?" is a well-written and generally......

London Quarterly Review, October. (t. Woolmer.) —perhaps...

article in this number is that on "The Origin o! the Primitive Methodist Connexion." It deals with one of the most im- portant questions of the internal politics of Methodism.......

Legends And Superstitions Of The Sea And Of Sailors. By

F. S. Bassett, Lieutenant U.S. Navy. (Sampson Low and Co.) —This is a book which, were it not so full of interesting matter, would be pro- voking on account of its extreme......