25 JANUARY 1896, page 37

Current Literature.

We accord with pleasure our customary greeting to the annual volume of the Journal of Education (Rice, 86 Fleet Street).—We have nothing new to say; the qualities of......

Natural Rights. By David G. Ritchie. (swan Sonnenschein...

Ritchie in this book goes deeply into what may be called the foundations of human life. He takes nothing for granted, and some conventions commonly accepted, of the " Natural......

The Humours Of Glenbraar. By Fergus Mackenzie. (a. D....

sketches in this volume are pleasingly compounded of the serious and the entertaining. The love-story of Bob Riach and Effie Young, for instance, is particularly good ; the......

The Clergy List, 1896. (kelly And Co.)—this Periodical...

no difference from the publications of former years, except that the net value of the livings is approximately given in place of the gross, though, indeed, this change is not......

History Of Slavery. By John Kelly Ingram, Ll.d. (a. And

C. Black.)—Dr. Ingram has compressed within the compass of a moderate-sized volume a history of slavery which is quite adequately complete. He begins, after an introductory......

The Golden Age.*

BY a polite fiction childhood is called the golden age, but we doubt if anyone grown to man's estate would beg Time to " run back and fetch the age of gold" for his own......

The Year - Book Of Treatment. (cassell And Co.)—this Is...

issue of a work which, bringing together as it does the results of medical investigation and practice into a convenient compass, must necessarily be of very great utility to the......

The Year's Art. Compiled By A. C. R. Carter. (j.

S. Virtue and Co.)—This is the " seventeenth annual issue," containing, we observe, the new feature of a critical review of the year's art under the title of " Memories of '95,"......

The Portuguese In India : Being A History Of The

Rise and Decline of their Eastern Empire. By Frederick Charles Danvers. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—Mr. Danvers has compiled a careful account of the successive stages by which the......