7 APRIL 1877, page 23

A Plea For Art In The House. By W. J.

Loftie, F.S.A. (Mao. milieu -and •Co.)—We wonder what- new series for the benefit of the British masses will next be commenced. Here we have the initial volume of the" Art at......

Village Preaching For A Year. By The Rev. J. Baring-gould,

M.A. Second Edition. (W. Skeffington and Son.)—The merits and demerits of these sermons may be discerned from a single example,—a sermon on the text, " Take the rod, and speak......

Nettle - Stings ; Or, Country Quartos. By A Yorkshire Pen. 3

vols. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The " nettle " is, we suppose, Mrs. Blu'ster, a slanderous old woman of worse than doubtful antecedents, who rules the little sea-side place of......

Biding - Out The Gale. By Annette Lyster. 3 Vols. (samuel...

—Singleton Trelawney, who reminds us somewhat, by the way, of James Hannay's " Singleton Fontenoy,"minna his fancy and scholarship, is cursed with a father, obstinate, selfish,......

Current Literature.

incorrect interpretations of the Scripture phrase, " the kingdom of the heavens." That phrase, he insists, always refers to a human kingdom, which from the time of Adam had been......

The Magazines.

THE " Symposium," in the Nineteenth Century, is, on the whole, a success. It is not a debate, still less a conversation, and tends every now and then to be a little tedious ;......