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In A Series Of Which We Have Often Had Occasion

to speak with praise, "Handbooks of Practical Gardening," edited by Harry Roberts (John Lane. 2s. 6d.), we have The Book of Roses, by Louis Durand. In no branch of the gardening......

The Natural History Of Coal. By E. A. Newell Arbor.

(Cam- bridge University Press, is. net.)—This volume, one of the "Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature," goes thoroughly into its subject, and naturally includes much......

Old Chinese Porcelain. By A. W. Bahr. (cassell & Co.

30s. net.)—The North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society held at Shanghai in November, 1908, an exhibition of old Chinese por- celain. Here we have a catalogue of some of......

We Have Received "coronation Numbers" From Two Of Our Con-

temporaries, the Illustrated London News, edited by Bruce S. Ingram (2s. 6d.), and The Sphere (2s. 6d.). Both aro handsome productions and well worth the modest sum which is......

Memories Of A Manager. By Daniel Frohman. (w. Heinemann. 55.

net.)—Mr. Frohman was for many years a manager, and, it would seem, a successful manager, in New York. American play- goers will find much to interest them, and English......

An Atlas Of Textual Criticism. By Edward Ardron Hutton....

University Press. 5s. net.)—It would not be right to pass over this very laborious work without notice. It is to quote the sub-title, "An attempt to show the mutual relationship......

Some Books Of Tiie Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Canada of To-day. By W. Maxwell. (Jarrolds. Is. net.)— The original......

British Dominions. General Reviews. Edited By W. J....

and Co. 6s. 6d. net.)—Eight of the nine papers here published were delivered as lectures in the University of Bir- mingham in the winter session of 1010-11; the ninth gives an......