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Oak/2/ns With The Pervigilium Veneris. Edited By S. G. Owen.

Illustrated by J. R. Weguelin. (Lawrence and Bullen.)— Catullus. Edited by Elmer Truesdell Merrill. (Ginn and Co., Boston, U.S.)—Mr. Owen's volume is an edition de luxe. It has......

St. Wynfrith's. By E. Everett-green. (jerrold And...

very truthful delineation of almshouse life and pettiness. Most of us have but a vague idea of what life must be in those neat cottages, and fancy when we see old men and women......

The Romance Of Navigation And Maritime Discovery. By...

(Ward, Lock, and Bowden.)—Mr. Frith begins with the Assyrians, Greeks, and Bomans, and comes down as far as the eighteenth century. It might have been better to leave out the......

The Music And Musical Instruments Of Japan. By F. T.

Piggott. (B. T. Batsford.)—We must be content with commending this sumptuous volume, finely printed, and copiously illustrated with photographs from life and from Japanese......

Messrs. Rontledge And Sons Send Us Some More Gay Picture-

books for young children :—Walter Crane's Noah's Ark Alphabet, with an admirably drawn and coloured head for every creature; Walter Crane's Absurd A B 0, a volume of highly......

The Mohammadan Dynasties. By Stanley Lane - Poole. (a....

is a book of "Chronological and Genealogical Tables with Historical Introductions." The regions into which it takes us are often such as are known to very few. The chief......

Two Roving Englishwomen In Greece. By Isabel J....

Low and Co.)—These two ladies seem to have had no real difficulty in making their way through Greece by themselves. Plenty of determination and a thorough understanding with the......