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The Catholicos Of The East And His People. By Arthur

John Mac- leane, M.A., and William Henry Browne, LL D. (S.P.C.K.)— The " Catholicos of the East" is the Patriarch of the Syrian, otherwise Assyrian, otherwise Nestorian,......

Nooks And Corners Of Herefordshire. By H. Thornhill...

Stock.)—Herefordshire is a county which is but little known to the average Englishman. As Canon Philott, who fur- nishes this volume with an introduction, remarks : "The popular......

/da's Mistake. By "v. G. F." (digby, Long, And Co.)—in

Ida's Mistake we have a lively picture of family life, with the quarrels, misunderstandings, trials, sunshine, and cloud, that go to make up life in the best regulated families.......

The Thirsty Sword. By Robert Leighton. (blackie And Son.)...

Battle of Largs, in which Hakon of Norway was repulsed by Alexander of Scotland, figures in the tale of The Thirsty Sword, and the events which led up to it are woven into the......

The Two Dorothys. By Mrs. Herbert Martin. (blackie.)-...

elder is a veteran author ; Dorothy the younger is a girl, her great-niece, who aspires to follow the same occupation. Her ambitions, her humiliations, the way in which she is......

Strange Yet True. By Dr. Macaulay. (nisbet And Co.)—here We

have between twenty and thirty "interesting and memorable stories retold." Some of them are almost too well known. "The Loss of the 'Royal George:" for instance ; but most are......

The Magazine Of Art, 1892. (cassell And Co.) — The...

Art introduces for the first time among its illustrations a specimen of " chromotypograv - ure," a recently devised method of auto- matic reproduction of paintings. The original......

The Rajah Of Monkey Island. By A. Lee Knight. (ward,

Lock, and Co.)—The Rajah of Monkey Island is a young middy, and the account of his slave-dhow captures and the history of his rise to the commanding position of ruler of Monkey......

Berw The Briton : A Story Of The Roman Invasion.

By G. A. Henty. (Bla,ckie and Sons.)—Mr. Henty's narrative-power is as vigorous as ever in this story of the revolt under Boadicea. It says much for his power of attraction,......