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The Master Of Aberfeldie. By James Grant. (hurst And...

—In this story the well-known author has availed himself of all the ingredients of the military novel. Descriptions of the scenery of Scotland, traditious of the Black Watch,......

Anti-napoleonic Caricature.*

Engiish Carkature and Satire on Napoleon I. By John A.diton. With 115 Illustrations by the Anthem'. 2 vols. London: Chatto and Windus. 1834. Mn. ASHTON is a bookmaker, rather......

A History Of Canon Law. By The Rev. J. Dodd,

M.A. (Parker and Co.)—Mr. Dodd epeaks of his subject as "complicated and hope- less." He has not, we think, improved matters by a certain habit of digression in which he......

Current Literature.

The Annual Register/or 1883 (Rivington) contains its usual items, "English History" extending to 209 pages, and "Foreign History" occupying a space not much less. A "Chronicle......

An Open Foe : A Romance. By Adeline Sergeant. 3

vols. (Bentley and Son.)—There is an old Greek adage comprised in the two words Mnlav &yap, which we would commend to Miss Sergeant's notice, or if she prefers the......