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Mid Pleasures And Palaces. By Mary Landon. (t. Fisher Unwin.

6s.)—We do not quite know whether this is a book of travel or a novel. There has recently appeared a hybrid of this kind, and hybrids, as we all know, may have many excellent......

The Post Office London Directory. (kelly's Directories....

manual," as it might be called, grows and grows in quantity, while in quality it is as excellent as ever. The pages number more than four thousand six hundred—the volume......

The Fourth Book Of Pilgrimages To Old Homes. By Fletcher

Moss. (The Author, Didsbury. £1 is. net.)—This volume continues a series which we have had the pleasure of noticing on more than one occasion. Among the contents we see......

In The Church Handbook (wells Gardner, Darton, And Co., 2s.

6d. net) Dr. P. V. Smith gives us a very useful manual explaining various matters with which members of the Anglican Communion are specially concerned. Not the least valuable......

The Catholic 'directory. (burns And Oates. 2s. Net.)—this...

the seventy-first publication of the "Directory, Ecclesiastical Register, and Almanac." The Catholic Peers number forty-two, the Baronets fifty-two; there are forty-nine......

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......

My Bock Garden. By Reginald Farrer. (e. Arnold. 7s. 6d.

net.)—A new book on gardening ha a no sort of need of an apology. It is sure to be welcome. Gardens vary almost infinitely, from Chatsworth down to the smallest patch in a city......

We Would Recommend A New Edition Of Venetian Life, By

W. Dean Howells (A. Constable and Co., 16s. net), with twenty illustrations in colour by Edmund H. Garrett, a delightful book in every way.......

We Have Received From Messrs. G. G. Harrap And Co.

three volumes the nature and use of which are sufficiently indicated by their titles. These are A Treasury of Ballads, Selected and Arranged by M. G. Edgar, M.A. (1s. 6d. net);......