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    Books Keceived :— From J. W. Arrowsmith....

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    publi-From Messrs . William F . Nimmo & Co . — Gems of Literature and Elegant Extracts / Illustrated

    Selections by eminent from artists a wide . A book of of standard prose and authors verse . with illustrationswhich range ¦» mainly consist of head- ,

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    Prom the same . —' The Cabinet of Gems and the Literary Bouquet ; gathered from celebrated authors — — — . - ' With . __ . numerous ___ — ^_ ¦ ^^ —w ^^ ^ illustrations ¦ i ™ —» ^^— * w ^ r ^» ^ aw ^*^ m ^^ by mm ^ mr w eminent ^^ Bt ^ - ^ b «¦» wnm •*** ^^* fc ^ tf

    artists . This volume may be said to form a combut panion with to the the difference ' Gems -- of that - Literat - the - ure ros ' e just extracts noticed are , ¦ ¦— p

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    in opening the volume . Prom Messrs . James Wisbet & Co . — ' The Vedic

    Religion ; or , The Creed and Practice of the Indo-Aryans three thousand years ago / By the Rev . K . S . MacdonaldM . A . MissionaryFree Church

    of ScotlandCalcutta , . , Second edition , . This work is , we learn , from the preface , an expansion of a paper written for the Calcutta Missionary

    Conference of 1879-80 ; and to those who have neither the time nor the opportunity of reading the larger treatises on the subjectit will be

    VUV . lUlgVt LlV . ( lil'li 3 Vk > V-IJ blAG O U W I l / VV } , 11 nill * J \^ invaluable , while its original pag ^ s on the ' Sanhita , * or collection of hymns of the Rig Veda ,

    haTe a special attraction of their own . As the Sanhita of the Rig Veda is the virtual compendium of Hinduism 9 it is 9 as Mr . Macdonald points out

    essential that , all , missionaries to the JL Hindus , should be practically acquainted with its teachings ^^ j ¦ ; v and — to such — — persons , as well as to those

    readers who are interested in the subject in its more general bearings , this popular summary will bo most useful . Mr . Macdonald not only gives in a

    the concise chief form subject the ^ views and doctrines set forth on in which the book Chris on - tianity _ . differs __ — - - fro — ^_ m .- heathenism --. _ — r but he also gives

    , ^^ some , original translations from the h 3 mns . From the same . — ' Treasures of the Talmud / being

    a series of classified subjects in alphabetical order Talmud from ^¦^^ 'A' and to translated 'L h , ' comp ¦ »¦ iled by - Paul from Isaac the Bab Hershon y lonian - ;

    with ^ v ^ r ^ ^ . > ^^ . ^ notes . W ^^^^^ , J ^^*^^ p . , ^^^ " indices w ^»~ ^^ ^^^^^ m ^ m ^^ . ^ — ^ , ^^ and - ^^ ^^^ ^ an m ^~ — introductory — ^ ^» * ^ " — ^ pre face , by the Rev . H . M . D . Spence , M . A . The object of this work is to give the general reader gome

    idea of the contents of what Canon Spenc © in the preface mi w ghty f book justl tf y ' the terms ¦¦¦¦ Talmud ¦ . / that -r . iv While strange he , mysterious admits than ,

    ir it ^^ . is p ^> ^^ , no comments V ^^^ " doubt ^^ F ^^^ T ^*^ ^^ , ^^ full ^* . " which ^ . ^ of — ^ m * w wild - ~* are ^ w — m ^ untrue tradition - - — and , a mischievous nd conta — ins he any claims for it also that it has in it many a gem ,

    of thought , many a beautiful story handed down from by the remote great anti teachers quity , of many the chosen a wise say peop ing le spoken in

    frirbjick Talmud days must . It is inevitabl also obvious tend that to a thro stud w y of much the light on the Old Testament y and on Jewish History ,

    and from this point of view th « present volume

    is entitled to the careful reading of all Biblical students . The translator has arranged M ^ jM his work

    under a series of subjects in the following order : Adrice ; Afflictions ; Alms ; Ark and Tables of the Covenant ; BooksS icred and Profane ;

    Commandments ; The Day , of Atonement ; Ear _ W ; Fasts and Fasting ; Good Works ; Hospitality ; Idolatry ; Jerusalem ; Kings , Emperors , Princes ,

    & c . ; and the Land of Israel . Some of the wise sayings on books are worthy of notice , as , for instancethe advice : ' Select a revised book for

    thy son , when he begins to learn to read , fur a mistake once made is not easily eradicated . ' Two carefully •/ -A prepared . JL indices , the first of the

    passages of Scripture ( more than seven hundred in number ) referred to or quoted in the ' Treasures of the Talmud / and the second of the subjects

    of the translation , add much to the value of the work . From the same . — * Swiss Letter . * and Aline

    Poems / By Frances Ridley Havergal , . The world-wide interest felt in ' the writings and memorials of Miss Havergal has led her family

    to think that such of her letters written to her home circle from Switzerland as they have been able - to — collect _ - _ will be acceptable -t to her __ many

    admirers / We quote from the preface . We do not doubt that the lady , who is the editor of the volume before ushas rightly judged the

    probable appreciation of , it by an English public . Apart from the value which everything that has proceeded from the pen of Miss Havergal

    will have for a multitude of readers , this particular book has an additional dement of interest in that it contains the reflections and impressions

    produced by a land with which almost all cultipoeti vated cal Eng pieces lish the men are not and women kep of the t separat are familiar e , but . inter The

    mingle -w ^ th prose letters , just as , we may suppbse , it occurred to the mind . From ~ ¦ Messrs ¦ . Parker i & Co . —The Visitors' Guide

    ^^ P ^ W to ~ n |^ " ^^^^ Oxford ^^^ v ^ . ^^ ^^ T ^^^ - ^^ W / ^^^ r ^ ^ r ^^^ Few - ^ — —^^ ^^ persons » - ^^ " will ~ ' be disposed — — " - to ~" question the authority of a guide-book to the University City which bears the imprint of its

    well-known publisher , and when we find that the ' advertisement' prefixed to the volume bears the have furthof

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    Dec . 17 , 1881 The Publishers' Circular 1257

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 17, 1881, page 1257, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_17121881/page/11/