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Who Kills Him, The Autumn Equinox ; Achilles Sulking In

his tent is the mid-winter sun; Memnon and Achilles contending " may refer to the rival claims of the stars Sirius and Formalhaut to calendrical honour." In another aspect......

The House Dignified. By Lillie Hamilton French. (g. P....

Sons. 21s. net.)—Miss French writes from America, where they are accumulating many treasures of the Old World and successfully imitating what they cannot transport. She tells......

Who's Who, 1909 (a. And C. Black, 10s. Net) Appears

without any change, except, indeed, increased bulk. The publishers speak of the growing number of biographies, and as the pages are reckoned up to two thousand one hundred and......

New Editions. —in The "oxford Library Of Translations ^...

Press, 7s. net) we have The Republic of Plato, Translated by B. Jewett, 2 vols. The reprint is substantially with- out change, except that the marginal analyses have been......

Sunday. (wells Gardner, Darton, And Co. 3s. And 5s.)— "

Sunday Reading for the Young" is the full title of this magazine, and it is a title which is well justified by its contents. The limits which the word " Sunday " implies are, as......

Letters Of A Remittance Man To His Mother. By W.

H. P. Jarvis. (John Murray. 35. 6d. net.)—It is no uncommon thing, we under- stand, in Canada to see under an advertisement for labour, "No Englishman need apply." If any one......

Golfers, A Numerous And, We Need Hardly Say, Influential...

will find Rules of Golf (Royal Insurance Company, Liverpool) a useful little manuaL It gives the rules as they have been finally settled by the "Royal and Ancient." They come in......

Foundations Of Reform. By The Military Correspondent Of...

Marshall, and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—In this volume are republished a number of papers read before societies, articles contributed to various periodicals, letters addressed to the......

Choosing A Career. By Duncan Cross. (cassell And Co. 2s.

6d. net.)—Mr. Cross furnishes guidance for all the professions and occupations, and adds information about some handicrafts. As far as we have been able to examine and check his......

Sport And Athletics In 1908. (chapman And Hall. 5s. Net.)—

We cannot do better than quote the description of contents which is given on the title-page : "An Annual Register, including the Results for the year 1908 (to November), of all......

We Have Received From Messrs. De La Rue And Co.

an assort- ment of Pocket-Books, Diaries, Memo-Books, ctc., of all sorts and sizes. Some are meant for the pocket, even if the pocket is of the smallest capacity, and some for......

In The "english Churchman's Library" (a. R. Mowbray And Co.,

ls. net each) we have The Practical Religion, by Vernon Staley, Fourth Edition ; Letters to a Godson : Second Series, by M. Cyril Bickersteth, M.A. ; The Christian Use of the......