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The Dictionary Of Religion. Edited By The Rev. William...

B.D., F.S.A. (Cassell and Co., Limited.) — This Dictionary of Religion professes to be en "encyclopedia of Christian and other religious doctrines, denominations, soot,......

The English Church In Other Lands. By The Rev. H.

W. Tucker. (Long- mana.)—This volume—one of the " Epochs of Church History," edited by Canon Creighton—as the work of the Secretary to the S.P.C.K., comes from a well-informed......

The Lady's World Has Decidedly Improved In Arrangement,...

quality and variety of letterpress, since we noticed the first number, although the stories are by no means so good as they ought to be. There is plenty—perhaps too much—about......

Fancy Pigeons. By James C. Lyell. (l. Upcott Gill.)—this Is

a third edition of a work which has received approval from a consider- able number of interested readers. The special feature of the new issue is that coloured pictures of the......

The History Of Berkshire. By Lieutenant-colonel Cooper...

is the latest addition to the "Popular County Histories" which Mr. Elliot Stock is publishing. The old county histories, admirable as they often were, the life-work of some......

Chemistry Of The Sun. By J. Norman Lookyer, F.r.s....

and Co.)—Mr. Lockyer gives us first a short account of the work done by early investigators in spectrum analysis, Kepler, Newton, and Wollaston, the last of whom may be......

We Are Sorry To See The Editor Of The Scottish

Church, in a note to the May number, which closes the fourth volume, saying that the measure of the support granted to the magazine by the Church " has hitherto been very......