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Hints From Lincoln.* Npw That The War Is Burning Low

in South Africa, the prob! lema which_ it will leave behind it loom large on the horizon. • Lincoln's Phial 1p/construction. By Charles H. McCarthy. Ph.D. (Ys.) London :......

The Coming Of The Preachers. By John Ackworth. (hodder And

Stoughton. 63.)—Mr. Ackworth gives us an interesting account of the rise of Methodism in a small country town. The picture he draws of life in England at that time is rather a......

Novels.

SWEETHEART MANETTB.* ENGLISH readers are excusably inclined to regard modern American fiction as falling under three heads,—historical romance, studies of city life, and New......

T Bacca Queen. By Theodora Wilson Wilson. (e. Arnold....

this book there are two threads of story, at times closely woven together, at others too loosely connected for a quite satisfactory artistic effect. The events take place partly......