24 SEPTEMBER 1887, page 24
Current Literature.
Manchester. By George Saintsbury. (Longmane, Green, and Co.) —The preface of this book shown its origin and history. It "was written for the series of ` Historic; Towns' edited......
Palestine In The Time Of Christ. By Edmond Stapler, D.d.
Translated by Annie Harwood Holmden. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —Professor Stapler has found the materials of his book first in the Gospels and Epistles, secondly is Josephus, and......
Recent Novels.*
The Story of a Kiss seems at first eight—and, indeed, at second and third sight—rather a silly title for a three-volume novel ; bat after reading the book so named, we must......