What Obscure Words By A Sub-title, "devonshire Customs,...
Folk-Lore." We . find, however, on examina- tion that there is much that is as common outside Devonshire as within its borders. Sowing hempseed, burning nuts in the fire,......
The Synoptic Gospels. Edited By George Lovell Cary, Ma. (g.
P. Putnam's Sons. 7s. 6d.)—This is one of the series of " Inter- national Handbooks to the New Testament," appearing under the editorship of Dr. Orello Cone. The position......
Pausanias, And Other Greek Sketches. By J. G. Frazer. (mac-
millan and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Frazer has done well to republish in what may be called a popular form some of the most generally interesting matter in his great edition of Pausanias.......
The Times Atlas (times Office) Shows A Considerable...
pages of maps have been increased in number from 117 to 132, and the maps to 196, while the names indexed have been augmented by a fifth,'-.-i.e., from 125,000 to 150,000. Among......
In Rudyard Kipling : A Criticism, By Richard Le Gallienne
(John Lane, 3s. 6d.), we have an excellent example of the kind of book which is better left unwritten. Where there is so unbridgable a gulf in temperament as that which yawns......
Famous Fighting Regiments. By George Hood. (hood, Doug-...
Howard. 1s. net.)—It is somewhat invidious to select " fighting " regiments, though, doubtless, some honourable nick- names are better known than others. And it is not easy to......
Agricultural Botany. By J. Percival, M.a. (duckworth And...
6d.)—This text-book, with its useful drawings, will be of assistance to the farmer who has had a good education, but not to the farmer most of us have in our minds, who never......
Translations From Martial, Book I. By An Eton Master....
2s. 6d.)—Here we have translations, paraphrases, or adaptations of fifty epigrams, executed, in the first instance, for the benefit of the author's pupils, and now published......
Literary Interpretation Of Life. By W. H. Crawshaw, A.m....
and Co. 45. 6d.)—Professor Crawshaw publishes here, we presume, matter which he has given in the form of lectures. We must own that we find it better suited to oral delivery......
Paris. By Augustus J. C. Hare. 2 Vols. (g. Allen.
6s.)— This is "a second edition revised." It does not, of course, pro- fess to deal with the Paris of the Exhibition. That subject must have a volume for itself. But it treats......
Thomas Guthrie. By Oliphant Smeaton. (oliphant, Anderson,...
6d.)—This is a volume of the "Famous Scots Series "; few names of the thirty.tive—this is the number now reached—better deserve a place. Thomas Guthrie began his ministerial......
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