15 DECEMBER 1888, page 13

The " Encyclopedia Britannica."

T HE new edition of the " Encyclopedia Britannica," just completed in twenty-four volumes, must have been a great pecuniary success. Mr. Black, to whose enterprise the......

Why Hymns Are So Seldom Good.

T HELady-Principal of Cheltenham College has just published a very interesting little collection of hymns which she calls " The School Hymnal (supplementary to Church Hymns),"*......