8 OCTOBER 1881, page 20

Current Literature.

TALES.—The Falls of the Loder. By Rosa Mackenzie Kettle. (James Weir.)—Mr. Athelstan and his eldest son are drowned in the Loder, the second son is with difficulty saved, and......

The Magazines.

THE Contemporary for October is a very instructive number, .1eficient only in entertaining reading. It is a little too gritty with facts. We could not ourselves honestly class......

The Baseless Fabric Of Scientific Scepticism. By George...

(Smart and Allen.)—As might have been expected, we have here an attack on Professors Huxley and Tyndal, the arch apostles, as the author maintains, of atheism and materialism,......