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3 . 1 Cmoir Of Bishop Seabury. By William Jones Seabury,...

10s. 6d.)—Samuel Seabury was born at Groton, in Co nnecticut, on November 30th, 1729. He graduated at Yale, , s lira4 appointed Catechist by the Society for the Propagation of......

Some Books Of The Week.

I.Untisr this heading we notice such Books of the week us hew not been r tamed for Ylltd#1.0 in other forma.] Modern Research as lliustrating the Bible. By the Roy. S. R.......

The Perfect Tribute. By Mary R. S. Andrews. (bickers And

Son. 2s. 6d. net.)—A very pathetic story of Lincoln is hero told. (We take it as true.) He had made his speech at the con- secration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, and......

Ten Years After. By G. Fred. 13ergin. (j. Nisbet And

Co. 3s. 61)—Mr. Mailer, founder, and for many years director, of the Bristol Orphanage, died. in 1898. Would the work collapse, or in any way be weakened, by his death P......

The Oxford English Dictionary. Edited By Sir James A....

(Clarendon Press. 5s.)—This month's instalment is a double section, constituting a part of Vol. VIII. and taking in from " Ribaldric—Romantic." It appears under the care of Dr.......

History Of The United States And Its People. By Elroy

McKendree Avery. Vol. V. (Stevens and Brown. 28s. net.) —This fifth volume—the work is to be completed in sixteen—takes in the period 1763-1776, bringing up the history to the......

Readablii Novelb.—the Prince's Pranks. By Charles Lowe....

taste which presents an illustrious living Personage as a character ii a book may be doubted, but Mr. L owe's account of what happened at Queen Victoria's first Jubilee is at......

St. Si/bast. By Claud Field, M.a. (junes Clarke And Co.

2d.)—This poem, which obtained the Seatonian Prize at Cam- br idge, consists of a series of seventeen sonnets. This is a form which we imagine to be absolutely novel in such......

Small Holdings In England. By Frederic Impey. (p. S. King

and Son. 8d. net.)—Mr. Impey gives a good account of the small holdings movement. We hope that he may be right. It will be well from every point of view if his predictions on......

The Art Of Sermon Illustration. By H. Jeffs. (3, Clarke

and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—The great secret of sermon illustration is a well-stored mind. It is true that a preacher may have this qualification and yet not be able to illustrate his......