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James Russell Lowell. By Ferris Greenslet. (a. Constable...

6s. net.)—It is very pleasant indeed to be able to read in this book what one most likes to hear about the most gifted and genial of American humourists. (If we hesitate to use......

The Fleet Annual And Naval Year - Book, 1906. By L. Yexley.

(Westminster Press. 2s. 6d.)—This little work is, as the author says in his preface, intended to supply at a small cost a manual of facts and figures concerned with the navies......

With The Empress - Dowager Of China. By Katharine A....

Nash. 10s. 6d. net.)—Miss Karl received a commission to paint a portrait of the Empress-Dowager of China, accepted the commission with some misgiving, and found that the task......

The Saga Library.' Edited By William Morris And Eirikr...

Vol. VI. (Bernard Quaritch. 12s. 6d. net.)—This sixth and completing volume (sixth of the Saga Library and fourth of the Heiinskringla) appears after an interval of ten years.......

The Tradition Of Scripture. By William Barry, D.d. (long-...

and Co. 3s. 6d.)—It is highly interesting to see what position a Roman Catholic divine to whom the function of teach- ing the teachers of the future has been committed takes up......