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My Fishing Days And Fishing Ways. By I. W. Martin.

(W. Brandon, Plymouth. ls. 10d., post-free.)—Mr. Martin is chiefly familiar with Midland streams,—witness his sobriquet of "The Trent Otter." He writes, it should be noted, of......

Some Books Of. The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as haat not been reserved for renew in other forms.] The Right Honourable Sir James Stephen. Letters, with Biographical......

Some Curios From A Word Collector's Cabinet. By A. Smythe

Palmer, D.D. (G. Routledge and Sons. 2s. 6d.)—This is a treasury from which even a random snatch is sure to take some- thing of interest. " Donkey," for instance, is a word of......

London Topographical Record. Vol. Iv. (16 Clifford's...

contains the address delivered at the seventh annual meeting of the Society by the vice-president, Mr. Philip Norman, and the Proceedings ; a paper on "Recent Demolitions at......

Catalogue Of Additions To The Manuscripts Of The British...

(Longman and Co., and others. 80s.)—This volume contains the additions made to the MSS. Department during the years 1900-5. It is not possible to give more than the numbers, for......

Through Savage Europe. By Harry De Windt. (t. Fisher Enwin.

10s. 6d. net.)—There is savagery everywhere in Europe, but "savage Europe," par excellence, is to be found in the South- East. So thinks Mr. de Windt, and he has had not a......

Ten Years' Locomotive Progress. By George Montagu....

net.)—That problematical individual, the "man in the street," has so much to occupy his attention that he only occasionally notes technical progress. Yet few who travel much can......

C Olleetanea. By Charles Crawford. Second Series. (shake-...

Press, Stratford-on-Avon. 3s. 6d. net.)—This volume contains two essays reprinted from Notes and Queries. The first is an examination of the borrowings by Webster and Marston......