26 AUGUST 1899, Page 26

MIRCELLANNOUS.—We have received this year's issue of the London Manual

(C. Lloyd, is.)—It contains, besides the usual items of information, the London Government Bill, passed last Session, the full text being given, with references to other Acts, explanations, and facts as to the newly constituted boroughs. —Two books of the devotional kind that may be mentioned together are :—The Life Worth Living, by the Rev. Dyson Hague (Marshall Brothers, Is.) ; and Nightly Notes and Morning Memories, by George R. Wood (same publishers, ls. 6d.)