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"my Chief And I."*

Is the bitter cold of this winter, it was some comfort to take up a pleasant-looking book, the scene of which was South Africa, and hope for a sort of reflected warmth and......

Current Literature.

Reviews and Discussions : Literary, Political, and Historical. Not Relating to Bacon,. By James Spedding. (C. Kegan Paul and Co.)—Mr. Elpedding has here collected a number of......

The Educational Year-book For 1880 (cassell, Petter, And...

a marked advance in arrangement upon its predecessor. A good deal of criticism, not always favourable, was bestowed upon this work, and has been received, we are glad to......

Of York Has Gathered Together A Number Of Essays And

speeches. More than a third of the volume is occupied with a reprint of the prefatory essay prefixed to the Synoptic Gospels in the "Speaker's Commentary," a well-written and......

Heriot's Choice. By Rosa Nouchetto Carey. 3 Vols....

reader must not be discouraged by a somewhat unpromising begin- ning to this tale. When he reaches the latter part of the first volume he will find the interest increase, and......