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The Church Of The Early Fathers : External History. By

Alfred Plummer, M.A. (Longmans.)—This is an account of the spread of Christianity from the secession of Trojan down to the Edict of Toleration published at Milan,—a period of......

Current Literature.

The version of the Baron de Mandat.Grancey's admirable Ches Paddy, which Messrs. Chapman and Hall have recently brought oat under the title of Paddy at Home, is a creditable......

The Second Series Of " Obiter Dicta."• The Second Series

of Mr. Birrell's Obiter Dicta is not much, if it be at all, inferior to the first series, and no formal eulogy therefore is requisite for literary chit-chat which deserves the......