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Professor Skeat Puts The Students Of Chaucer Under An Addi-

tional obligation by giving them an edition of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women (Clarendon Press). It shows all the thorough- ness that characterises his work. The Legend, written......

Messrs. Marcus Ward And Co. Send Us The Late Mr.

C. S. Calverley's Ball - Room Comedy, cleverly illustrated by May Quiton. It is a rhymed alphabet about a ball, beginning with " A is an angel of blushing eighteen," " B is the......

Diaries And Atitanacs.—we Have Received From Messrs....

a variety of Letts's Diaries. There is Letts's Office Diary and Almanac (No. 51), an almost stately folio which might -serve, besides commoner uses, the purpose of any one who......

John Clifford. By W. Earl Hodgson. (remington.)—this Is A...

book, though it certainly cannot be called a good novel. It is not too much to say that the plot is somewhat farcical, with just a touch of melodrama. A Scotch minister (surely......

Modern Messiahs And Wonder-workers. By William Oxley - ....

It pertains," writes Mr. Oxley, "to tho scientific and philosophic historian to record the fact that in this- nineteenth century, A.D. [rather a strange phrase], indubitable and......

We Have Received From The Oxford University Press Some...

compressed Prayer - Books for the waistcoat-pocket, bound in flexible russia and morocco and calf leather, containing the greater part of the contents of ordinary Prayer-Books,......