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The Doctrine Of Energy : A Theory Of Reality. By

B. L. L. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 2s. 6d.)—The author of this able and suggestive little work holds that the conception of energy supersedes the old conception of......

Current _literature.

Mr. Richardson Evans gives in the current number of the Westminster Review a valuable summary of what has been done by his Society—that for checking the abuses of public......

The Congo State ; Or, The Growth Of Civilisation In

Central Africa. By Demetrius C. Boulger. (Thacker and Co. 15s.)—Mr. Boulger has been a little too obviously briefed. What he has to relate to us is how the Congo State was......

Novels Of The Week.* Captain Richard Blundell, In Mr. Morley

Roberts's spirited comedy of hero-worship, A Son of Empire, is, so • (1.) A Son of Empire. By Morley Roberts. London : Hutchinson and Co. [6s.]—(2.) The Treasury Officer's......

Willow-vale, And Other Poems. By Henry Rose. (regan Paul,...

and Co. 5s.)—Mr. Rose, who has done some good work before, is a genuine poet. His musings, like those of Words- worth, are on "man, on Nature, and on human life." He reads the......