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From Hearth To Cloister. By Frances Jackson. (burns And...

5s.)—This is a curious and significant little narrative, the story of how a, certain Sir John Warner and his wife became Roman Catholics, and ultimately made the monastic......

Everyday Life In Cape Colony. By X. C. (t. Fisher

Ulm in. 3s. 6d.) —" In Time of Peace" the author adds to the title of his book. In fact, it ends with the declaration of war by the Boers. It is chiefly occupied with the ups......

History Of The Royal West Surrey Regiment. By Colonel John

Davis. Vol. IV., 1802-1837. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 24s.)—Colonel Davis continues to tell the story of his regiment on a scale which enables him to do justice to details. It is......

The Holy City, Athens, And Egypt. By Sir W. T.

Charley. ! (Marshall Brothers. 10s. 6d.)—Sir W. Charley gives us some experiences of travel "in holy place and classic) land." There is nothing remarkable about them; but what......

Introduction To Poetry. By Laurie Magnus, M.a. (john...

6d.)—This volume is not intended, we hasten to say, to teach its readers to write verse; "its object is to stimulate a reasonable pleasure in poetry." And it is well calculated......

• Dark, Pages Of English History. By J. R. Willington,

M.A. (Art and Book Company. 2s. 6d. net.)—It troubles the author of this book that some people speak of "the savage and persecuting Church of Rome." "There is no better reply,"......

Is There A Religion Of Nature ? By P. N.

Waggett, (S.P.C.K. Is. 6d.)—By "Religion of Nature" is meant not "Natural Religion," but "Naturalism when proposed as a sub- stitute for Religion in the hitherto accepted......