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Lancashire And Cheshire Wills And Inventories. Edited By...

Rylands. (Chetham Society.)—This, is the third volume of "Lancashire and Cheshire Wills," beginning with the year 1563 and bringing us down as far as 1807. They lack the......

Recent Music.

Mr. Cowen's songs are difficult to class. They do not offend against good taste, they are written in a scholarly manner, there is melody of a certain kind, and the harmony is......

Books Received — The Social Mind And Its Development. By G.

E. Vincent. (Macmillan and Co.)—Dynamic Idealism. By Alfred St. Lloyd, M.A. (McClury and Co., Chicago. )—The Leading Aisles. Vol. I. (Alex. Gardner.)—Army Letters. By H. 0.......

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......

The Birds Of Our Country. By H. E. Stewart. Illustrated.

(Digby, Long, and Co.)—Mr. Stewart's descriptions of English birds are pleasant and chatty, and evidently derived largely from observation. There is nothing unusually......