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A Romance Of Art-magic!

To the looker-on at the ways of society in these restless days, its successive fads are not a little amusing, and the least enduring of them are the most entertaining. They will......

Appleton's Cyclopedia Of American Biography. Edited By...

and John Fiske. Vol. I. Aaron—Crandall ; Vol. II. Crane—Gritushaw. (D. Appleton and Co., New York.)—American Biography is intended to contain an account of all persons who have......

Herr Baedeker Adds To His Series Of "handbooks For...

Great Britain. (K. Baedeker, Leipzig; Dulau and Co., London.)— Greet Britain includes England, Wales, and Scotland as far as Leah Maree and the Cromarty Firth. The maps number......

John Wesley And Modern Methodism. By Frederick Bookie,...

edition, mach enlarged. (Itivingtons.)—No one who is at all conversant with the subject has any doubt that John Wesley was throughout his life a Churchman, and that from first......

Current Literature.

With a new volume beginning in December, the Scottish Church makes a new departure, under the new designation (or, rather, the old title revived) of the Scots Magazine. The......

Men And Letters : Essays In Characterisation And...

Horace E. Scudder. (Houghton and Co., Boston, U.S.A..) — Beflned criticism expressed in good English is always pleasant to read, and this Mr. Scudder gives us. The writer is a......

The Broken. Vow. By W. J. Knox Little. (chapman And

Hall.)— Canon Knox Little tells one of the many "ghost-stories" which most of as have beard, and tells it with considerable skill. In this case, it is a story of two revenants,......

Right Onward ; Or, Bays And Bays. By Ismay Thorn.

(John F. Shaw and Co.)—It is doubtless difficult nowadays to write a story of schoolboy life that shall be at once original and amusing. The area for invention is limited, and......