12 MARCH 1887, page 25

The Anniversary Book. By " E. M. Al" (g. Watherston.)—here

is a book with a blank page for every day in the year, and additional pages for each month. Every page has twenty lines, and admits, therefore, of be entry of twenty events......

Schools And Scholars. By James Runciman. (chatto And...

Ranciman thinks very badly of the clergy, at least in their capacity of school managers ; and still worse of them as the Principals of Training Colleges. " Impudent pampered......

Warm Corners In Egpyt. By "one Who Was In Them."

(Reming- ton and Co.)—The writer was at Cairo before the first troubles in Egypt, got away from Alexandria just before the massacre, and took part in the "pacifying" of the city......

How And Where To Fish In Ireland. By " Hi-regan."

(Sampson Low and Co.)—The present writer cannot pretend to test this book by any personal knowledge of the subject ; but he has observed that it has been highly spoken of by......

Recollections Of A Chaplain In The Royal Navy. Compiled And

edited by his Widow. (W. H. Allen and Co)—Of all men in the world, a "naval chaplain" has the least chance of being a hypocrite. If the light that beats upon his life is not......

Rome In Winter, And The Tuscan Hills In Summer. By

David Young, M.D. (EL K. Lewis.)—After some rather discouraging remarks about the hap-hazard way in which the Faculty recommend change of climate to invalids, Dr. Young proceeds......

The Crown Prince Of Germany A Diary. (sampson Low And

Co.) — We must explain that this is not a diary kept by the Crown Prince. That would be a very interesting document, if it were written without reserve and printed without......

Our Administration Of India. By U. A. D. Phillips....

— Mr. Phillips writes from his experience as a Civil Servant, and opposes an emphatic contradiction to the statements of such writers as Messrs. Seymour and W. S. Blunt. These......

The Bow Of Orange Ribbon. By Amelia E. Barr. (j.

Clarke and Co.)—The scene is laid in New York, in the days before the revolt of the Colonies ; the hero is one Captain Hyde, the heroine Katherine, daughter to Joris Heemekirk,......

Tales Of The Caliph. By Al Arawiyah. (t. Fisher Unwin

)— These tales are of adventures which are supposed to have happened to the Caliph Harems Alraschid, mingled with stories which he is supposed to have heard from persons with......

Watery Wanderings 'mid Western Lochs. By T. H. Holding....

and Co.)—Mr. Holding tells, in the worst possible English, a story that is worth reading. He started from Greenock with three companions, each in a canoe of his own, and enjoyed......