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Phases of Bradford Life. By James Burnley. (Simpkin and Marshall.)—This

volume is a reprint of papers which have appeared in a local paper. Perhaps we may be allowed to say that they do it con- siderable credit. The " Phases " are photographs, not always very agreeable—photographs seldom are agreeable—but cleverly done. "Silsbridge Lane," a quarter where the Irish congregate ; "Shipley Glen," a favourite haunt of Bradfordians out on a holiday ; Bradford Music Halls (it seems that the intelligent Yorkshire artizan has just as silly a taste in songs as the Londoner) ; the places where the bargaining of Bradford is done, are among the scenes described. The article "Amongst the Saints and Spirits "is as curious as any, though Bradford's spiritualism does not seem to have reached, as yet, a very high development.