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C Urrent Literature.

A NEW MANUAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. International Law. Part I., Peace. By John Westlake, K.C., LL.D. (Cambridge University Press. 9s. net.)—We heartily welcome the first......

The History Of The Society Of Apothecaries. By C. K.

B. Barrett, M.A. (Elliot Stock. £1 ls. net.)—The "apothecary" of Eliza- bethan literature was a tolerated practitioner, not conforming to the highest standards of the medical......

The Bed Cravat. By Alfred Tresidder Sheppard. (macmillan...

6s.)—Mr. Sheppard's name is new to us, and if this be a first book, it is a notable performance. It is an historical romance, in the old-fashioned full-bodied style, of the......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice smolt Books of the look ess have not boos reserved for review in other forme.) Church and State in England. By W. H. Abraham, D.D. (Longmams and......

The Teaching Of Latin. By W. H. S. Jones, M.a.

(Blackie and Son. ls. net.)—Mr. Jones gives some very valuable hints. The truth is that the results of the teaching of Latin, so far as they are visible—say to an examiner—are......

Robert Browning. By C. H. Herford. (w. Blackwood And Sons.

2s. 6d.)—In this volume, one of the series of " Modern English Writers," Mr. Herford is quite equal to himself. More one can hardly say. We are not wholly in agreement with his......

The Oxford English Dictionary. (clarendon Press. 2s....

carries us on a little further,—from "ee " to "er" in R," or Vol. VIII. Within this range we have 1,496 words, of which the greater part have a Latin or French origin. It is......