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The Shady Side And The Sunny Side. Two New England

Stories. By Two Country Ministers' Wives. (Sampson Low.)—These are two tales of the "Queeclay " class, not quite so good as that book, but still fairly readable, and interesting......

The English Bible. By A Barrister-at-law. (bartlett.)...

too much. His subject is the evidence relating to the history and authenticity of the Bible generally. It is impossible to compress. into a volume of a hundred and eighty pages......

The Sea Fisherman. By J. C. Wilcocks. (longmans.)—mr....

that out of more than five hundred works on angling that have issued from the press not more than three profess to deal with the sub- ject of sea fishing. He has made in this......

Albany Stark's Revenge. 3 Vols. By Richard S. Maurice....

and Otley.)—Revenge is a subject which affords great facilities for the construction of a plot, but which nevertheless a novelist will do well to avoid. The settled enduring......

Thoughts Of A Physician. (van Voorat.)—this Volume Is A Col-

lection of essays on various ethical subjects, most of them pleasantly and sensibly written, if not showing much originality or power. The writer illustrates some of his......

The Red Court Farm. 3 Vols. By Mrs. Henry Wood.

(Tinsley.) —Mrs. Wood tells us that "the germ of this novel appeared in two short tales, published by the author in first-class periodicals some years ago." The process of......

Current Literature.

Apologetic Lectures on the Saving Truths of Christianity. By Chr. Ernst Luthardt. (T. and T. CLsrk Edinburgh.)—Herr Luthardt, who is one of the Professors of Theology in the......

Aids To Prayer. By Daniel Moore, M.a. (rivingtons.)—this...

a course of six Lent lectures on the subject of prayer delivered in the Church of which Mr. Moore is the incumbent. They are, on the whole, able discourses, and maintain the......

A Ride Across A Continent. 2 Vols. By Frederick Boyle.

(Bentley.) —Mr. Boyle claims in his preface the right to laugh at what seem to him absurdities. The claim would readily be conceded, if it were not unfor- tunately the case that......