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The Vita Nueva And Its Author. By C. S. Boswell.

(Kogan Paul and Ce.)—The Italian stands high among European lan- guages for its purity, sweetness, tenderness, and clearness, to which may be added the facility with which it......

Current Literature.

'Tween Gloamin' and the Mirk. By Sir Hugh Gilzean-Reid. (Alexander Gardner.)—Most of the sketches in this volume, its author tells us, were written more than a quarter of a......

John Greenleaf Whittier.*

Ma.. PICKARD has done his work very well. True, his two volumes may seem a little long to English readers. There is a good deal about American politics that does not much......

Mclellan Of Mclellan. By Helen R Redden, (bliss, Sands, And

Foster.)—Here we have a stout, substantial, essentially common- place story, with a good old-fashioned, mildly melodramatic plot. A mysterious peasant, or half-peasant, a wicked......

Philo About The Contemplative Life. By Fred. C....

(Clarendon Press, Oxford )—The most important point connected with this treatise of the learned and philosophic Jew of Alexandria, is the question of its genuineness, which the......