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Their History From A.d. 7 To Our Own Times—is A

terrible and shameful story of untold sufferings, sufferings which still continue in Russia and Eastern Europe. Mr. Adams's plan is to give chapters recording in tarn the......

Japan And Its Art. By Marcus B. Huish. (fine Art

Society.) —Mr. Huish's aim is to produce a sketch of Japan, its life, manners, religion, and art, as portrayed for us in that art, and, we should add, from an artistic point of......

The Bible True From The Beginning. By Edward Gough, B.a.

Vol. I. (Regan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The main subject of this book is the question of everlasting punishment, a question which the author began to investigate with so-called......

The Monthly Packet Is In Danger Of Becoming Too One-sided

in the departments both of fiction and of miscellaneous literature. This is the one criticism which the character of the August number suggests.......

Useful Native Plants Of Australia. By J. H. Maiden....

—Australian vegetation is subjected to such trying ordeals in the shape of droughts, that the estimate generally formed of its value is rather low. But though Australia is poor......

Modern Science In Bible Lands. By Sir J. W. Dawson.

(Hodder and Stoughton.)—This exceedingly interasting volume is the result of Sir W. Dawson's tour in Egypt, Italy, and Syria. It would be difficult to pick out any chapter for......

The Early Writings Of W. M. Thackeray. By Charles Plumptre

Johnson. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Johnson has sought out with much diligence for writings of Thackeray's early days that are unknown, Or commonly unknown to all but a few readers.......

Bed Ruin. By A. N. Homer. (ward And Downey.),—this "tale

of West African River-Life" is a well-told story. An English trader has to fight for his life with the neighbouring African potentate. The struggle is all the more fiercely......

The August Number Of The Atlantic Monthly Is An...

strong one. It is worth reading for Mr. Russell Lowell's poem alone, of "How I Consulted the Oracle of the Goldfishes," with such lines as :— " In your pent lives, as we in......

The Recollections Of A Nurse. By Sister Emma. (macmillan And

Co.)—This is a little book which might be easily overlooked, but which is worth reading. It gives a simple and unpretending account of a nurse's work. She took up nursing in the......