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The Wonderful Universe. By Agnes Giberne. (s.p.c.k.)—miss...

no little experience in the very pleasing task of popularising astronomy. She tables the chief phenomena of the universe in the usual order, except, it may be, as to the place......

The Greek E. By The Princess Laura Bonaparte. (h. S.

Nichols.) —This is a fairly well written novel, but the plot seems a little, or not a little, extravagant. Frances Harrold receives, shortly after losing her husband, a letter......

Prose Works Of William Wordsworth. Edited By William...

vols. (Macmillan and Co.)—In the preface to Professor Knight's new edition of Wordsworth he stated that the prose works would follow the poems. They appear, however, before the......

The Principles Of Ecclesiastical Unity. By Arthur James...

(Longma.ns and Co.)—Professor Mason states his principles with clearness and precision, and applies them with a practical liberality which meets all reasonable requirements. Of......

The Charm, And Other Drawing Room Plays.. By Sir Walter

Besant and Walter Pollock. (Chatto and Windus.)—These eight plays (all republished from various magazines) are of a simple kind, suited in this and other respects for private......

British Moralists : Being Selections From Writers,...

Eighhteenth Century. Edited, with an Introduction and Analytical Index, by L. A. Selby-Bigge. M.A., formerly Fellow and Lecturer of University College, Oxford. 2 vols.......

With The Yacht And Camera In Eastern Waters. By The

Earl of Cavan. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—Lord Cavan published a book which we do not remember to have seen," With the Yacht, Camera, and Cycle in the Mediterranean." This......

Charles Vickery Hawkins. Memorials Edited By Rev. W. E....

and Rev. J. T. Inskip. (Hodder and Stoughton.)-- C. V. Hawkins died at the age of twenty-two, not long after his graduation at Cambridge. "The University," said one who was well......

A Handbook Of English Literature. Originally Compiled By...

New Edition. Revised, with New Chapters, and Extended to the Present Time. By W. Hall Griffin, B.A. (Crosby Lock- wood and Son.)—Twenty-three years have gone by since Mr. Dobson......

A Hero Of The Dark Continent. By W. Henry Rankine,

B.D. (Blackwood and Sons.)—W. Affieck Scott VMS a medical missionary of the Church of Scotland in Central Africa. He passed through Edinburgh University in a specially laborious......