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Poems In Many Keys. By Edwin Smith, M.a. (southport,...

Edwin Smith has a vein of genuine poetry in him, but it is a good deal mingled with a genial and kindly sentiment that often misleads him into treating subjects which have not......

Scotland's Ain Game.*

THAT the game of Curling should have its history written, and that the history should come forth under high auspices. was a thing to be expected sooner or later. A fitting......

Current Literature.

The Universal Review for July has a paper by Mr. Laurence Housman, " The Green Gaffer," which might be called a poem if, which we do not admit, poetry can be indepen- dent of......

The Expositor. Edited By The Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll....

and Stoughton.)—This is the first volume of a new (a fourth) series. There are three powerful papers from the pen of the late Bishop Lightfoot, dealing with " The Internal......