The Story Of A Fellow-soldier. By Frances Awdry....
is a short biography, intended for younger readers, of Bishop Patteson. Miss Yonge's "Life," admirable as it was in many respects, was certainly in its first form a somewhat......
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A Manual Of Botany ; Anatomical And Physiological. By Robert
Brown. (Blackwood and Son.)—This is a most complete and admirable manual, which we can heartily recommend to the students for whose use it is intended. It is divided into four......
History Of Christian Theology In The Apostolic Age. By...
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The Law And The Lady. A Novel. By Wilkie Collins.
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A Woman To Be Won. By Athene Brame. 2 Vols.
(S. Tinsley.)— How are we to interpret the words "to be won ?" If in the strict sense of "that which ought to be, deserves to be won," we cannot agree with the author's......
A Foregone Conclusion. By W. D. Howells. (boston, U. S.:
Osgood and Co. London : Triibner.)—Mr. Howells's tale has at least all the fine qualities of humour and pathos and delicate drawing of character - which we expect to find in......
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