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destructive famine desolated the Deckan Thousands of people emigrated, and

many perished before they reached more favoured provinces ; vast numbers died at home ; whole districts were depopulated, and some had not recovered at the end of forty years." And of India generally : "Famines, which even now are sometimes the scourge of India, were more frequent in ancient times."-Health at School. By Clement Dukes, M.D. (Rivingtons. 10s. 6d. net.)-Hakluyt's English Voyages. Selected and Edited by E. E. Speight, B.A. (Horace Marshall. 2s. 6d.)- In the "Carmelite Classics" (same publishers), Milton's Samson Agonistes, Edited by C. T. Onions, M.A., with Glossary and Questions (6d.) ; Goldsmith's Traveller, and Retaliation, Edited by N. L. Fraser, BA., with Glossary, &c. (41) ; Gray's Elegy, and other Poems, by the same Editor (4c1.) ; Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, same Editor (4d.) ; and Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, same Editor (6d.)-In the " Bolles-Lettres Series" (Heath and Co.), belonging to the "English Drama Section," we have IVebster's White Devil, and Duchess of Malfy, Edited by Martin W. Sampson (3s. net); Browning's Blot in the 'Scutcheon, &c., Edited by Arlo Bates (2s. 6d. net) ; and in " Early English Literature" The Gospel of St. John in West-Saxon. Edited by J. W. Bright, Ph.D., with a Glossary (3s. &I. net); The Gospel of St. Matthew, by the same Editor (2s. 6d. net) ; and Juliana, by William- Strunk, an early ecclesiastical legend by Cynewulf (2s. 6d. net).