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The Book Of Psalms In English Blank Terse. By Ben

Tehillim. (Andrew Elliot, Edinburgh.)—The author of this translation thinks that "to chant a prose version is an absurdity; music, being rhyth- mical, needs a rhythmical......

A Short Constitutional History Of England. By Henry St....

Feilden, B.A. (B. H. Blackwell, Oxford.)—" A Short History of the Constitution " would have been a better title for this book. It does not, as one might expect, give a......

We Have Received The First Of A Series Of The

Student's Hand - book of Philosophy — Psychology, by Professor Cocker, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The first book, entitled " Prolegomena," gives in out- line the views of......

Social Wreckage. By Francis Peek. (isbister.)—this Is A...

instead of criticising, we feel rather disposed to encourage the reading of, and mainly on account of the obvious earnestness of its anther, who belongs to the philanthropic,......

The Adventures Of Halek, An Autobiographical Fragment, By...

Nicholson (Griffith and Farran), is intended to set forth in an allegorical form varying states of growth in the mind of a thinker of the nineteenth century. The narrative is......

Q. Horatii Flacci Carminum Ieiber Iv. Edited, With Notes, By

T. E. Page, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Page shows us that there is still something to be done for Horace, after all the labour which commentators almost without number have......

Cambridge Greek Testament For Schools And Colleges : St....

Gospel. By the Rev. G. F. Maclear. (The University Press.)—It is scarcely necessary to say more than that Dr. Maclear's contribution to this excellent series is worthy of its......

A Narrative Of The Boer War. By Thomas Fortescue Carter.

(Remington.)—If we cannot accept this volume as history, and to do this would be to pronounce definitely on some very obscure and diffi- cult questions, we may say without......

River Songs. By Arthur Dillon. Illustrated By Margery...

Paul, Trench, and Co.)—There is some really fine verse in this volume, though the author's feeling for rhythm seems uncertain. He has caught, too, something of the spirit of the......