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The Modern Review Sustains Its Character For Variety,...

strong sense " touched with emotion." "Natural Religion," "Pro- gress and Poverty," "Augustus de Morgan," and " Spinoza " are among the not strictly theological articles. Mr.......

Left Till Called For (wells Gardner) Is A Very Well

told, but also very pathetic story, by the author of "Honor Bright," of a child left at a railway station, who does a work of genuine civilisation among the rough men that......

The Student's Geography Of British India. By Dr. G. Smith,

C.I.E. (Murray.)—This book, though scarcely intended for general readers, will be consulted by others than students. It is a marvel of labour and condensation, and its compiler......

Sixes And Sevens, Written By F. E. Weatherly, And...

by Jane M. Dealy (Hildesheimer and Faulkner), is one of the prettiest of the many pretty books for children that have passed through our hands this season. The verses are very......

In The New Number Of The London Quarterly There Are

some in- formative articles which are above the average. Of these, the best are, perhaps, " Recent French Historical Literature " and " Charity in the Early Church ;" although a......

It Is Hardly Possible To Criticise A Book At Once

so handsome and so matter-of-fact as An Account of Some of the Incised and Sepulchral Slabs of North-West Somersetshire. By R. W. Paul. (Pre- vost and Co.)—The paper and type......

We Are Glad To See That A Second And Enlarged

edition has been issued of The Man of the Woods, and other Poems (Black, Edinburgh), by William McDowell, author of, perhaps, the best and fullest local history that Scotland......

The Tower Gardens. By Miss Alldridge. (f. Y. White And

Co.) —This is a very bright and readable novel, leaving in every chapter an impression on the critic's mind that it ought to be even better than it is. Miss Alldridge has keen......