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We have received five new volumes of the "Cambridge Manuals

of Science and Literature," which include The Royal Navy, by John Leyland; The Sun, by R. A. Sampson; Tconcmzics and Syndicalism, by A. W. Kirkaldy; Coal Mining, b3 T. C. Central ; and The Making of Leather, by H. R. Prt ter (Cambridge University Press, ls. net each). This series is one of the best of its kind, and the writers may usually be trusted, as experts of considerable authority on their special subjects.—Another highly commendable series, of which the same thing may be said, is the " Home Univer- sity Library," to which there have just been added The Alps, by Arnold Lunn; Central and South America, by Professor W. R. Shepherd; The Renaissance, by Edith Sichel; Eliza- bethan literature, by J. M. Robertson and Religious Develop- ment Between the Old and the New Testament, by Canon R. H. Charles (Williams and Norgate, ls. net each).