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Stephen Marshall. By E. Vaughan. (a. Fairbairns And Co. 2s.

6d.)—This "forgotten Essex Puritan" was a notable man in his day. He was a graduate of Cambridge, from that great Puritan stronghold, Emmanuel. Taking Orders, he became vicar of......

Toynbee Hall Report, 1906 - 7. (toynbee Hall,...

do better than indicate some of the chief activities of Toynbee Hall. There are University Extension courses, evening classes and other educational opportunities, smoking......

We Can But Record The Appearance Of The Black Book

of Carnarvon, Edited by J. Gwenogoryn Evans (Pwllheli, 16s.) The Welsh text has been reproduced in the most elaborate way, all defects or doubtful passages being marked in the......

Footsteps Of Scott. By W. S. Crockett. (t. N. Foulis.

3s. 6d. net.)—This is a delightful book to read anywhere; to read it in "Waiter Scott's Land," which may be taken, in its proper sense, as meaning the valley of the Tweed and......

.canon And Text Of The New Testament. By Caspar Rene

Gregory. (T. and T. Clark. 12s.)—Mr. Gregory puts together in this volume of more than five hundred pages a great mass of valuable informa- tion. His special theme is the New......

A Cottestvold Manor : Painswick. By M. St. Clair Baddeley.

(J. Bellows, Gloucester. 10s. 6d. net.)—The history of the region in which Painswick occupies an important place goes back as far as the ' beginning of the continuous history of......

Through The Magic Door. By Arthur Conan Doyle. (smith,...

and Co. 5s.)—The "magic door" is the door of a library. Sir Arthur Doyle begins by gossiping pleasantly about hie own library, how, for instance, in early days he would spend......

Neariv A Hundred Years Ago. By Annie R. Butler. (s.

W. Partridge and Co. is. net.)—Miss Butler tells the life-story of her father, Thomas Butler. He was left at twenty-one with a heavy charge by his father's premature death. One......

The Romance Of Medicine. By Ronald Campbell Macfie....

Co. 6s.)—Dr. Macfie does not prepossess a reader by his early remarks. "The world has been made and inter- preted for us by great minds, but we ourselves are as helpless as the......