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Criminal Sociology. By Enric Ferri. (t. Fisher Unwin.)—...

which studies the organic and mental con- stitution of the habitual criminal, is a science of much narrower limits than criminal sociology. In fact, its conclusions, as Signor......

In The National Gallery. By Cosmo Monkhouse. (a. D. Innes.)

—It is satisfactory to be told by so competent an authority ac Mr. Monkhouse that there is no collection so well adapted as is our own National Gallery for the purpose of......

Excursions Into Libraries. By G. H. Powell. (lawrence And...

Reviews and Bibliographical Notes " is the sub-title which Mr. Powell gives to his book. His first paper is on "The Philosophy of Rarity." What makes a book rare what......

The Village Watch Tower. By Kate Douglas Wiggin. (gay And

Bird.)—In this volume we have six clever sketches of New England life and character. Of the six "The Village Stradi- varius" is, we think, the most attractive. It is an idyll of......

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......

The Jacobite Attempt Of 1719. By William Kirk Dickson....

University Press.)—This episode of history is one but little known. The movement was crushed almost as soon as it began ; its significance is to be found in the indications it......

The History Of North Atlantic Steam Navigation. By Henry...

(Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—Various writers have treated the subject which Mr. Fry handles in these pages, but no one, we imagine, with exactly the same claim to be heard. "......

The Great War Of 189 — . By Rear-admiral P. Colomb, Colonel

J. F. Maurice, and others. (W. Heinemann.)—The second edition of this " Forecast " makes a not inopportune appearance. It was first published in December, 1892 ; the time that......

From The Black Sea Through Persia And India. By Edwin

Lord Weekes. (Osgood, Mcllvaine, and Co.) —Mr. Weekes and his party, after various disappointments necessitating changes of plan, journeyed from Trehizond through Kurdistan into......