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The Women of Israel ; or Characters and Sketches from the 



Holy Scriptures and Jewish History. By Grace Aquilar. Crown 8vo, pp. 576. 

 (London : George Routledge and Sons. 1889.) Price 3s. 6d. 



The work, written by a Jewess for Jewish Women, attempts to illustrate 

 the Past History, Present Duties, and P'uture Destiny of the Hebrew Females, 

 as based on the Word of God. It is divided into seven Periods, and treats — 

 I, of the Wives of the Patriarchs ; 2, the Exodus and the Law ; 3, the Period 

 between the Delivery of the Law and the Monarchy ; 4, the Alonarchy ; 5, 

 Babylonian Captivity ; 6, Continuance of the Second Temple ; and 7, Women 

 of Israel in the Present as influenced by the Past. 



Essays on God and Man ; or, a Philosophical Enquiry into 

 the Principles of Religion. By the Rev. Henry Irwin Bray, M.A., B.D., 

 LL.D., Rector of Christ Church, Boonville, M.O., U.S.A. 8vo, pp. ix. — 270. 

 (St. Louis : Nixon-Jones' Printing Co. 1888.) 



In the preface of this unique work the reader is plainly told what startling 

 avowals the author is prepared to enunciate- He tells us that men are every- 

 where drifting away from the old beliefs, and that the intellect of the world 

 has "lost all faith in the Church of the past." He states that he has faith in 

 the reality and permanence of religion, and hopes in a measure to lead his 

 readers to discriminate between the evanescent and the permanent, between 

 temporal and eternal, and that whilst they may doubt and reject the one, they 

 should not reject the other. 



We have read the book with much interest, but think that the author has 

 laid too much stress on the negative side of the Christian religion, as we have 

 it revealed to us in the New Testament. 



Is THERE ANY RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN SHAKESPEARE AND 

 Bacon ? (London : Field & Tuer. 1888.) 



In this volume. Bacon and his biographers are freely quoted in 

 order to show that in every quality he was the very opposite of Shakespeare. 

 Examples are also given of verses which Bacon did write, but which, the 

 author says, his present champions studiously ignore. 



Notes for Boys (and their Fathers) on Morals, Mind, and 

 Manners. By an Old Boy. i2mo, pp. 213. (London : Elliot Stock. )^ 



A series of ten chapters on Unselfishness, Truth and Honesty, Courage 

 and Manliness, Energy and Perseverance, etc., which every young man, or old 

 man either, may read with profit. 



The Spirit of Beauty ; Essays Scientific and Asthetic. By 

 Henry W. Parker. (New York : John B. Alden. 1888.) 



Professor Parker is well known in America as a writer in the North 

 Afnej'ican Review and other Journals. The first two papers in this book were 

 read in substance to the Iowa Association for Scientific Research, and are here 

 extended and popularised. They are believed to be the first attempt to_ review 

 thoroughly, though in a condensed form, the asserted facts on which the 

 figments of brute reason and taste have of late been founded. The title of the 

 first is Beauty and Beast ; the second, Mind in Animals. 



Life of William Congreve. By Edmund Gosse, M.A. 

 i2mo, pp. 192 — ix. 



Life of John Bunyan. By Edmund Venables, M.A. izmo, 



pp. 195 — XXXV. 



^LiFE OF Heinrich Heine. By William Sharp. 121110, pp. 

 218 — xvii. 



