Parochial Sermons. By The Right Rev. James Fraser, D.d.,...
Bishop of Manchester. Edited by J. W. Diggle, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—When a man has made his mark and passed away from this world, his whole career has an interest attaching......
Planetary And Stellar Studies. By John Ellard Gore....
Drowley.)—Mr. Gore has collected here between thirty and forty papers on various astronomical topics. These, as some of the marvels of the stellar universe, as the binary stars,......
Mr. Nagendra Nath Ghose Has Written Grist° Das Pal :
a Study. (S. K. Lahiri, Calcutta.)—Kristo das Pal was a pioneer in the movement of which we see a later outcome in the recent " Con- gress." He aspired to see an Indian Civil......
Sheik Hassan, The Spiritualist. By S. A. Hillam. (w. H.
Allen and Co.)—This is a curious story of crime and of necromancy. The evocations practised by the Sheik are very grim scenes indeed. The Sheik, poor man, does not appear, for......
Heligoland And The Islands Of The North Sea. By William
George Black. (Blackwood and Sons.)—The matter contained in this book, made up as it is of the results of personal observation, history, and old legends, ought to make it very......
Our Priests And Their Tithes. By A Priest Of The
Province of Canterbury. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—We do not quite understand the reform here suggested. We are to have "personal and not local endowment." That is plain ;......
Paul's "principles Of Language."* The Translator Of This...
work," as he calls it, has not produced a book that can be recommended to English readers who are unacquainted with German. And English readers with a good knowledge of German......
Current Literature.
Doctors and Doctors. By Graham Everitt. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—These "curious chapters in medical history and quackery" contain some interesting and, we may add,......
We May Commend To Students Of History Or Ethics, Seneca
on Benefits, translated by Aubrey Stewart, M.A. (Bell and Sons.)— "Seneca," the translator rightly says, "seems almost forgotten in modern times." Yet he is full of interest,......