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Pretty Arts For Leisure Hours. By E. A. Davidson. (chapman

and Hall.)—Modest books, like modest people, are apt to under-rate themselves, and in this case the title of the book gives but a poor idea of its real value. Not that it is by......

Sketches From Shady Places.* Fr Seems To Us That, In

future, books had better be published without titles, since a title is no longer any guide to the sub- ject or object of the book. "Why not give the name of the author, and if......

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Through Bible Lands. By Philip Schaff, D.D., LL.D. (Nisbet and Co.)—So many excellent clergymen of various countries and creeds have travelled over the route followed by Dr.......