The Five Great Skeptical Dramas Of History. By The Late
John Owen. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—By "Skeptical Dramas of History" is meant dramas so great as to become historically famous. The five are the Prometheus Vinctus of......
The Doman See In The Early Church, And Other Studies.
BY W. Bright, D.D. (Longmans and Co.)—Much of this volume has already appeared in print. The "Studies," however, are not the less welcome in this form. Professor Bright gives us......
Current Literature.
The Naval Annual. By T. Brassey. (Griffin and Co., Ports- mouth.)—It is satisfactory to think that to furnish the imposing display at Spithead we had to make no demands on the......
Faith And Self - Surrender. By James Martineau, D.d....
Book on a Great Subject" is a noble utterance on a subject of supreme importance. "The only know- ledge that can really make us better is not of things and their laws, but of......
A History Of The Hebrew People. By Charles Foster Kent.
(Smith, Elder, and Co.) — This is a useful little volume, containing, in an easily assimilated form, many of the results of recent criticism. Dr. Kent is not destructive, and he......
Wonderland ; Or, Curiosities Of Nature And Art. By Wood
Smith. (Nelson and Sons.)—A volume of the familiar kind about the various things in which young people are supposed, and doubtless ought, to be interested. They are told about......
Women Who Win. By William M. Thayer. (nelson And Sons.)—we
must own that the titles of this and its companion volume are not to our taste. There is a certain vulgarity about the defining word "who win." Nor do we always admire Mr.......
Sophocles And Shakespere. By Lionel Horton Smith. (mac-...
Bowes, Cambridge.)—Mr. Horton Smith's essay obtained the Members' Latin Essay Prize at Cambridge three years ago. It is seldom that these compositions emerge from obscurity ;......
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