28 OCTOBER 1876, page 21

Qurrent Literature.

published, and is a thoughtful and concise resume of the question. The evils of the competitive and other examinations are strongly insisted on, and the system of specialism......

Beowulf.*

A FIRST instalment of this new edition of the great English epic has reached us. It contains, indeed, less than half of the text, with an introduction ; but as none of the......

Pearson's England In The Fourteenth Century.*

WE are not surprised that Mr. Pearson should be willing to deal with the History of England in the Fourteenth Century. In so- doing he is carrying on his earlier work, and he......