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Our Temperaments. By Alexander Stewart. (crosby Lockwood,...

thinks that men might be more exactly classified by their temperaments. The temperaments are four, but these, as the author allows, seldom occur in their pure state. His......

The Sparrow - Shooter. By The Rev. F. 0. Morris....

Co.)—This is a vehement defence of the sparrow against the enemies who question his right to exist, too vehement, indeed ; for Mr. Morris, whatever the justice of his cause,......

Outlines Of Jewish History, B.c. 586 - 0.e. 1885. By The...

of "About the Jews since Bible Timee." (Longmans.)—This book will take its readers over ground that will probably be unfamiliar to them. A strange and pathetic history it is,......

Britta, A Shetland Romance, By George Temple (ishister),...

really powerful story. It professes to be a chapter in the autobio- graphy of Thomas Jack, a Scotch clergyman who settles in a Shetland parish—Mr. Temple writes of the Shetland......

Messrs. Bentley Have Done Wisely In Adding To Their Now

very voluminous literature on French history, regarded on the gay as well as on the grave side, a new and singularly handsome edition in three volumes of Louis the Fourteenth......

The Investment Of Trust Funds. By Edward Arundel Geare....

and Sons.)—The idea of this little law-book is good, but its execution is bad. It professes to be intended for layman as well as lawyers. But it is not very well adapted for......

Lights And Shadows Of Church History. By William Hardman,...

(Skeffington.)—This is a series of sermons, illustrated by Church history from the Apostolic times down to the Civil War, and even later, the earlier period being treated at......

Aphrodite. By Ernst Eckstein. Translated By Mary J....

S. Gottsberger.)—We cannot say that either the original or the translation of this book is a work of high artistic merit. The story is a prose amplification of the story of......

The Law Relating To Nonconformists And Their Places Of...

By Reginald Winslow. (Stevens and Sons.)—This is a very clear and excellent handbook of the subjects with which it deals. It is apparently exhaustive, and treats of Protestant......