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Annals Of Cholera, From The Earliest Periods To The Year

1817. By John Macpherson, M.D. (Ranken).—A book of great research, telling us, we believe it may be said, all the facts of importance that belong to the history of this disease.......

Current Literature.

The Himalayan Districts of Kooloo, Lahoul, and Spat. By Captain A. F. P. Harcourt. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—This is one of the best provincial reports we have met with. It gives......

Wife Or Slave? By J. A. St. John Blythe. 3

vols. (Bentley.)--Mrs. Blythe—we conjecture female authorship, partly from a certain famili- arity with matters of the toilette, partly from other reasons which we shall leave......

Some Aspects Of The Cross. By The Rev. W. H.

Hutchings, M.A. (Masters.)—There would be nothing to call for particular notice in this - volume, thoughthe sermons have a certain force of earnestness and con- viction about......

The True Doctrine Of The Eucharist. By Thomas S. L.

Vegan. (Longman.) Notitia Euchoristica. By W. E. Scudamore. (Riving- tons.)—Here are two books, each of them the work of a learned divine ; each displaying, indeed, a vast......

The Lives Of The Saints. By The Rev. S. Baring-gould.

(Hodges.)— This is the first volume of a series which is intended to give an account of all the more remarkable saints of Christendom. They are ranged under the days of the......

Firm In The Struggle. By Emma Pickering. 3 Vols. (newby.)

— There must be something particularly fascinating, to judge from the frequency with which the plot occurs, in the notion of a young man of old family, left with an......

Arthur Wilson : A Study. 3 Vols. (tinsley.)—we Have Been

some- -what exercised in mind by endeavouring to find out why this work has been called a "Study." Possibly the hero, Arthur Wilson himself, is a atudy after Richardson. There......

Bacchus Dethroned. By Frederick Powell. (educational...

to the Scriptural argument of a teetotal book to estimate its value. If we eould but find a writer honest enough to say that the conditions of the question are changed, that......