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Acts Of The Privy Council, 1578 - 1590. Edited By John Roche

Dasent. (Eyre and Spottiswoode.)—There are many interesting and significant entries relating to both public and private affairs in this volume. Relations with Spain were......

The First Two Centuries Of Florentine History. By...

Villari. Translated by Linda Villari. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Professor Villari concludes in this volume his work on Florentine history, for such it is rather than a history of......

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : A Narrative Of The Events Of

His We. By James Dykes Campbell. With a Memoir of the Author by Leslie Stephen. (Macmillan and Co.)—This library edition of the best biography of Coleridge yet written, which......

The Lost Stradivarius. By J. Meade Falkner. (blackwood...

is a weird story, conceived in something of the spirit of a Greek tragedy, but with a modern setting. Poor John Mal- travers has the bad luck of having among his ancestors a......

The Somerset Carthusian. By E. Margaret Thompson. (john...

volume, one of the " Catholic Standard Library," Miss Thompson tells the story of the foundations of Witham and Hinton. Witham was the first Carthusian House in England, founded......

Venice. By Daniel Pidgeon. (kogan Paul, Trench, And Co.)...

Pidgeon puts together in this little volume some im- pressions of Venice, Venice of the present and Venice of the past. The first chapter is given to the Grand Canal, the......

The Sister Dominions. By James Francis Hogan, M.p. (ward And

Downey.)—The " Sister Dominions" are Canada and Australia, and Mr. Hogan, after traversing Canada by the Canadian Pacific Railway, took his passage to Australia by the......