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In "the Gentleman's Magazine Library" (elliot Stock),...

general supervision of George Laurence Gounne, we have English Topography, edited by F. A. Milne, M.A. (7s. Gd.) The three counties included in this part are Wiltshire,......

George Whitehead: His Work And Service. Compiled From His...

by William Beck. (Headley Brothers. 2s. 6d.) —George Whitehead became an "acceptable minister" in the community of Friends at sixteen, and laboured for more than seventy years,......

The Jewish And Muhammadan Calendars. By The Rev. Sherrard...

Burnaby. (G. Bell and Sous. 21s. net.)—Mr. Burnaby devotes about two-thirds of his book to an elaborate description of the Jewish Calendar from the earliest times. From this he......

Dr. Abbott, After Illustrating His Thesis By Analogies...

Greek versions of Old Testament books, attacks his subject proper in chap. vi. "Matthew and Mark in the Triple Tradition [passages substantially common to the three Synopt ists]......

James Watt. By William Jacks. (for Private Circulation.)...

was certainly an "illustrious Scot." He showed the national characteristics at their best,—intensity, courage, inexhaustible patience. Watt was born at Greenock on January 18th,......

Dr. Murray's July Instalment Of The New English...

" J " and begins "K" (Jew.Kairine). The next is to complete "K," and with it the fifth volume. (A. dictionary may be supposed to be more than half finished when "K" has been......

Tennyson. By Morton Luce. (j. M. Dent And Co. Is.

6d. net.)—This is one of the series of "Temple Primers." To a certain extent it reproduces critical views already set forth in Mr. Lace's "Handbook to Tennyson." The volume now......

Our Public Schools. By J'. G. Cotton Minchin. (swan...

and Co. 6s.)—Mr. 3Iinchin, who is the author of "Old Harrow Days," finds doubtless his own peculiar subject in Harrow ; but he has evidently taken considerable pains with his......