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Woman Suffrage A National Danger. By Heber Hart, Ll.d. (t.

Murby and Co. is. net.)—To begin with, this means universal suffrage,—i.e., about quadrupling the present electorate. It involves the decay of the race and the home. It would......

Galatea Of The Wheatfield. By N. E. Francis. (methuen And

Co. 6s.)—This is a perfectly delightful study of a country girl who falls in love with a gentleman. The girl innocently compromises herself in the eyes of the world, and her......

Readable Novals.--the Actress. By Louise Closser Hale....

Co. (ls.)-1 story told in the first person by the heroine, who is an American. She is an ingenuous and attractive young lady, and though her struggle between her art and her......

Be As Well To Review The Progress Of This Great

work. Vols. I.-VI. are complete. Vol. VII., "0—P," which is under the charge of Sir James Murray, is to be finished by the October issue. The volume now current is shared by Dr.......

Register Of Magdalen College, Oxford. Vol Vi., 1821 -...

Dunn Macray. (H. Frowde. Is. 6d. net.)—The period covered by this volume was marked by a great change. Magdalen, from being a close foundation, became a College of the ordinary......

The Oldest English Epic. Translated In The Original Metre By

Francis Gummere. (Macmillan and Co. 4s. 6c1.)—Mr. Gummere has caught the tone and spirit of Beowulf very happily. The verse is of the simplest, and he has done well to keep......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heating ice notice such Book, of the week as haw not tssii swerved for rsvisw in other forms.] The Stone Ages in North Britain and Ireland. By the Rev. Frederick......

The Story Of Hampshire. By The Rev. Telford Varley. (a.

and C. Black. is. 6d.)—Mr. Varley writes his book for the upper standards of elementary schools and the lower forms of secondary, and he has done good service to patriotism,......

The Pools Of Silence. By H. De Vere Stacpoole. (t.

Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—The author of this book frankly acknowledges in a note at the beginning that it is a novel with a purpose, the purpose being once more to draw attention to......