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Realism And Romans, And Other Essays. By Henry Macarthur....

W. Hunter, Edinburgh.)—Mr. MacArthur died in his twenty-fifth year, after an academical career (at Edinburgh) of great distinction. His friends have selected for publication......

Four Lectures On The Law Of Employer? Liability At Morns

and Abroad. By Augustine Birrell, M.P. (Macmillan and Co.)— The last of these four lectures is given to the Employers' Liability Bill. Mr. Birrell, who here appears in the......

Maurice Quain. By Morley Roberts. (hutchinson And Co.)-...

principal figure in this story, is a type that will excite the sympathy of many readers. A strong, clever, but ill- balanced man, whose eccentricity and impatient pride......

Education Of Girls And Women In Great Britain. By C.

S. Bremner. (Swan Sonnenechein and Co.)—Misr Bremner gives nearly a quarter of her space to elementary education, not quite as much to secondary, and more than half to higher.......

On The Trail Of Don Quixote. By August F. Jaccaci.

Illus- trated by Daniel Verge. (Lawrence and Bullen. Ss. 6d. net.)—The village of Argamasilla, in the province of La Mancha, claims to be the birthplace of Don Quixote, and the......

A Rash Verdict. By Leslie Keith. 2 Vols. (bentley And

Son. 12s.)—A testator leaves all his property to a niece with the proviso that she is to forfeit it if she marries a certain person whom he names. She takes it for granted that......

Victoria, Queen And Empress. By Richard Davey. (roxburghe...

differs somewhat from the other records of the Queen's reign and life. The first chapter describes " London on the eve of the Queen's birth." England, thinks Mr. Davey, was......

British India. By R. W. Frazer. (t. Fisher Unwin.)—if We

have been tardy in noticing this book, a volume in the " Story of the Nations" Series, we must plead that a work of this kind, compressing a vast subject into a small space, is......