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* The Apology Of Origen. By John Patrick, B.d. (blackwood...

Sons.)—Mr. Patrick has done well to preface his account of Origen's Apology with an analysis of the work which it was written to answer, the "True Word" of Celsus. Such an......

Curiosities Of Christian History. By Croak° James....

is a book of the "Percy Anecdotes" kind. Mr. James begins with selecting some of the marvels of the spurious Gospels and of early legend ; he goes on to collect facts and......

Bent On Conquest. By Edith Maud Nicholson. 3 Vols. (hurst

and Blackett.)—This is really a somewhat silly story. The noble- man who employs as his agent a stranger of whose character and capacities he knows nothing, and the hated heir......

Victorien Sardou. A Personal Study. By Blanche Roosevelt....

Trench, and Co.)—Miss Roosevelt, though Mr. Beatty-Kingston describes her in glowing colours, seems to us something of a "ghoul," to use a phrase of Lord Tennyson's. "The world......