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The New Timothy. By W. M. Baker. (new York :

Harper.)—An American variety of the species "Religious Novel," and a very bright and lively creature too. Mr. C. Wall, trained for the " ministry " at a seminary, goes out to do......

Kimberwell House. By Robert Hudson. 3 Vols. (chapman And...

—If you could take out of this novel what the author evidently means to be as important to it as the character of Hamlet is to the play, there would be no great need of finding......

Hugonot Songs.*

FOR those who are attracted by the unfulfilled possibilities of history, there is no more curious subject of speculation than that of the momentous changes which would have been......

Current Literature.

Light Science for Leisure Roars. By Richard A. Proctor. (Long- reans.)—Mr. Proctor has collected from various newspapers and maga- zines a number of papers which he has......

The Storehouse Of Stories. Edited By Charlotte M. Yonge....

millan.)—Miss Yonge has revived in this volume certain favourites which delighted the childhood of a former generation. The strangers—for strangers they are to most readers of......