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Fresh - Water Aquaria. By The Rev. G. C. Bateman. (upcott...

aquarium is a thing to conjure with, for more can be learnt in a month from one than in years of paddling in streams. Mr. Bateman discusses the whole theory and practice of......

How London Lives. By W. J. Gordon. (religious Tract...

—The sub-title of this volume (which is, we suppose, a reprint from the Leisure Hour) is as follows :—" The Feeding, Cleansing, Lighting, and Police of London, with Chapters on......

Russia's Railway Advance Into Central Asia. By George...

H. Allen and Co.)—Mr. Dobson travelled from St. Petersburg to Samarkand in 1888, when the railway to the latter place was opened. He described what he saw in a series of letters......

Dr. Joseph Parker Publishes The Thirteenth Volume Of His...

work, The People's Bible : Discourses upon Holy Scripture. (Hazell, Watson, and Viney.)—The portion dealt with is the Proverbs. Dr. Parker's qualities are known to our readers,......

The Rive - Speaking Peoples Of The Slave Coast Of West...

By Major A. B. Ellis. (Chapman and Hall.)—We now find that in writing " The Tshi-Speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast," which was noticed in the Spectator (January 26th, 1889),......