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The Assistant Commissioner's Note - Book. By Captain C....

Stanford. 6s. net.)—Captain Buck writes to supply a need which he himself experienced, he tells us, in early days. He wanted information on many points, and had difficulty in......

Editorial Wild Oats. By" Mark Twain." (harper And...

net.)—This is a reprint of some amusing papers of the farcical kind which have appeared from time to time during the last thirty years. Here are the instructions with which he......

Boy And Girl : Should They Be Baueated Together? By

" Vivian Grey" and Edward S. Tylee. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ls. net.)—The authors of this pamphlet state the case for coeduca... tion, and we are inclined to be content with......

The Royal Society. By Sir William Huggins. (methuen And Co.

4s. 6d. net.)—Sir William Huggins gives us here four of the Presidential addresses which he delivered during his quinquennium of office. By way of introduction he sketches the......

The Editors Of Cap And Gown (the Holywell Press, Oxford,

ls. net) are to be congratulated on having secured the co-opera- tion of so clever and entertaining a draughtsman as Mr. Graham Hoggarth. His technique is at present somewhat......

Ancient Records Of Egypt. Historical Documents Edited And...

James Henry Breasted, Ph.D. Vols. I. and II. (University of Chicago Press. 13s. 6d. per vol.)—These two volumes include the records from the earliest time down to the end of the......

We Have Received From Messrs. J. B. Lippincott A Copy

of the " Montezuma Edition" of " The Works of W. H. Prescott," supplemented by his Life, written by George Ticknor. The works occupy twenty - one volumes. These are the Conquest......

The Knights Of England. By W. A. Shaw, Litt.d. 2

vols. (Sherratt and Hughes. £2 2s. net.)—Dr. Shaw gives complete lists of the special Orders of Knighthood,—the Garter, the Thistle, and St. Patrick ; of what may be called the......

In The " York Library " (g. Bell And Sons)

we have a republica- tion of Plutarch's Lives, Translated by George Long and Aubrey Stewart, 4 vols. (2s. net per vol.) Mr. Long translated thirteen of the fifty Lives, all his......

Mr. Banister F. Fletcher, Publishes Class Illustra- Tions...

Study of Architectural History (B. T. Batsford). These consist of four sections :—Classic (90 plates) (4e. net); Mediaeval (100) (4a. net) ; Renaissance and Modern (75) (4s.......