12 MAY 1906, page 28

We Have Received The First Instalment Of The Old Testament

in Greek, Edited by Alan England Brooke, B.D., and Norman Maclean, M.A. (Cambridge University Press, '75. Gd. net). It is to give the text of the "Codex Vaticanus " of the......

Many Readers Will Welcome A New Edition Of The Sacred

Poets of the Nineteenth Century : James Montgomery to Anna Ladino Waring, Edited by Alfred H. Miles (Routledge and Sons, is. 6d.) Among the names we see Richard Mant, Heber,......

Kew Gardens Bulletin Of Miscellaneous Information: (wyman...

others. 2s.)—We have received three volumes of this periodical (1903-5), and are glad to see that it survives or has been resuscitated. Features common to all the numbers are......

The United Free Church. By The Rev. R. Logan. (macniven

and Wallace. 2s. 6d.)—" The United Free Church," says Mr. Logan, "may be compared to a river composed of four streams,— the Reformed Presbyterian, the Secession, the Relief, and......

In The "royal Library : Ethical Series" (arthur L....

we have an English translation of The Life of Jesus, by Ernest Renan (15s. net).......

Values Of Old English Silver And Sheffield Plate. By J.

W. CaMicott. Edited by J. Starkie Gardner. (Bemrose and Sons. 92s. net.)—In this volume we have first a complete table of "hail-marks," London and provincial, and after these......

On The Queen's Errands. By Captain Philip Wynter. (sir Isaac

Pitman and Sons. 10s. 6d. net.)—Captain Wynter tells us about Oxford, where he was born—his father was Vice- Chancellor at the crisis of the Tractarian movement —about India,......

We Must Be Content With The Briefest Notice Of Modern

Book. bindings : their Design and Decoration, by S. T. Prideaux (A. Constable and Co., 10s. 6d. net). Mr. Prideaux illustrates his descriptions with pictorial specimens by......

In The Series Of "panel Books" (sisley's) We Have The

Decisive Battles of the World, by Sir Edward Creasy (3s. net), and Don Juan, by Lord Byron (2s. 6d. net), handsomely bound.......

Philippine Life In Town And Country. By James A. Le

Roy. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 5s. net.)—Mr. Le Roy worked for two years on the United States Commission (the aim of which was to establish civil government in the Philippines). We......

• Anything Like The Stoke D'abernon Brass, And Does Not

appear to have taken as much care as was their due of these curious relics of the past. At one place, which Miss Isherwood mercifully declines to name, the brasses were melted......