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Some Books Of Tii E Week.

[Under this Igeadiag se notice such Books of the tusk as hare not been reserved for °Mi.° in ether forme.] The Education Bill of 1906. By S. Lowry Porter. (Macmillan and......

Paratipomena Sophoclea. By . Lewis Campbell, M.a....

Campbell tells us in his preface that he desires "to place on record, for what it is worth, his matured opinion on disputed points in the text and interpretation of Sophoeles."......

The Story Of The "cheerybls" Grants. By The Rev. W.

Hume Elliot. (Sherratt and Hughes. 4s. net.)—William and Daniel Grant, natives of Strathspey, came to Lancashire in 1783. Bury and Rams- bottom were the scenes of their......

The Last Days Of Mary Stuart. By Samuel Cowan. (eveleigh

Nash. 12s. 6d.)—This volume, with the documents printed in it, the letters of Queen Mary, and the diary of her physician Burgoyne (covering the last six months of her life), is......

A Summary Of The Literatures Of Modern Europe. Compiled And

Arranged by Marian Edwardes. (J. M. Dent and Co. 7s. 6d. net) —This is a bibliographical account of English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish books from the beginning of the......

The History Of Local Government In England.

English Local Government frosts the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act: the Parish and the County. By Sidney and Beatrice Webb. (Longmans and Co. 16s. net.)—This is......

Some Problems Of Existence. By Norman Pearson. (e....

ed, net.)—We cannot undertake to discuss the very grave questions which Mr. Pearson deals with in this volume; but we commend to the attention of our readers two of the essays,......

The Church Of England Year Book. (s.p.c.r. 8s.)—the...

by this year's issue are not wholly satisfactory. The number of ordinations to the office of Deacon was - five hundred and eighty-seven, being thirty-seven below that of the......

Current Literature.

LOCAL AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT. Local and Central Government : a Comparative Study of England, Prance, Prussia, and the United States. By Percy Ashley. (John Murray. 10s. 6d.......