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Tennyson As A Religious Teacher. By Charles F. G. Masterman,

M.A. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—This is a book of no common merit. Mr. Masterman is not content to take popularly accepted notions about the teaching of Tennyson, and to put them......

Loan Capital. By The Rev. E. Latham. (w. J. Squires,

Woolwich, ca.)—Mr. Latham's only way of getting over Deut. xxiii, 20: "Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury" is to say that "the Jews were allowed to treat their Gentile......

Old London Taverns. By Edward Callow. (downey And Co....

Callow, who made his first acquaintance with London more than half a century ago. was set on his, present task by correcting some statements of Mr. G. A. Sala. (He made a fresh......

The Puritan As A Colonist And A Reformer. By Ezra

Hoyt Byington. (Gay and Bird. as.)—Mr. Byington supplements with this volume a work published some three years ago under the title of "The Puritan in England and New England."......

Some Books Of The Week.

[ruder this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Natives Under the Transvaal Flag. By the Rev. John H. Bovill.......

A Handbook Of Nursing. By M. N. Oxford. (methuen And

Co. 3s. 6d.)—It is not quite clear what Miss Oxford, who is a Sister at Guy's, has contributed to this volume. It consists of three sections, headed respectively, "Nursing,"......

An Echo Of Greek Song. Englished By W. H. D.

Rouse. (J. M. Dent and Co. 3s. 6c1.)—Mr. Rouse has put some very good work into these versions. There are "Love Poems,' perhaps the most numerous company, epitaphs, a......

The Dtuturnal Theory Of The Earth. By William Andrews....

Low and Co. 12s. 6d.)—This book is a singular example of misdirected ability and industry, after the fashion of the works of the people who try to prove that the earth is fiat,......

Lady Nairne And Her Songs. By The Rev. G. Henderson.

(A. Gardner. 2s.)—Lady Nairne was an Oliphant and a Jacobite by birth. Her grandfather was out in the '15, and her father in the 245. Relatives and friends bought back the......