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A Book Qf Victorian Prose And Poetry. Compiled By Mrs.

Hugh Walker. (Cambridge University Press. 3s. net.)— This selection from English writers has the particular purpose of illustrating Professor and Mrs. Walker's other volumes on......

The Land Of My Fathers. (hodder And Stoughton. 2s. 6d.

net )—An influential Committee is providing extra comforts for the regiments raised in the Principality, and to aid its funds this "Walsh Gift-Book" has been compiled. We wish......

The Navy. By Percival A. Hislam. The Army. By Captain

A. H. Atteridge. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. 2s ed. net each.)— These little volumes, published in the well-known "Shown to the Children" series, would make very acceptable Christmas......

A Book Of The Childhood Of Christ. (p. Lee Warner,

2s. 6d. net.) — Twelve pictures illustrating the early life of our Lord are here reproduced by the Medici Society after Old Masters, all, except one, Italian. There is also......

Young England. (the Pilgrim Press. 5s.)—this Is Volume...

a popular, fully illustrated boys' paper. It is predominantly warlike in matter and illustrations, but there are also serial stories of school-life and adventure, and a great......

Pirates. Edited By Lovat Fraser. (simpkin, Marshall, And...

fidt net.)—This is no new or faked romance of the Jolly Roger, but a reprint of twelve biographies from The History emd Lives of All the Most Notorious Pirates and their Crews,......

A "red Caoss " Gun-boom—the Wings Of The Wind, A

Mrs. Jane E. Cook, charmingly illustrated by pleasant poem by Miss Muriel Perrin, is published by the Field and Queen (Horace Cox, 5s. and Is.) to be sold for the benefit of the......

The State As Farmer. By George Radford. (smith, Elder, And

Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—The State is to step in to breed stock, store rains, destroy weeds, cure bacon ; the present system of land tenure is to go. But how and at what cost ? Mr.......

Some Books Of The Week.

• [Notice in this column doee not necessariLY preclude subsequent repine.] Wonders of Animal Life. By W. S. ]3erridge. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 6s. net.)—Fish that walk,......