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Historical Tales From Shakespeare. By A. T....

65.)—Mr. Quiller-Couch has told in prose the story of two of the Roman plays (Antony and Cleopatra he omits) and the historical plays (excepting Henry VIII.) It seems to us that......

Apis Matina : Verses Translated And Original. By Everard M.

Young. (Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge. 6s. net.)—Though Mr. Young's book cannot be expected to rival the picked work of the best scholars in a whole University, it is an......

Eminent Chiefs Of The Oxford Movement,—gable, Who May Be...

to have given it its first expression ; J. H. Newman; Dr. Pusey ; H. P. Liddon ; and Dean Church. He is strongly sympathetic, but one may see that the last of the five realises......

Latin Literature Of The Empire. Selected And Edited By...

Gudeman. Vol. II. " Poetry." (Harper and Brothers.)— Professor Gudeman follows up his earlier volume of " Prose " this selection from the poets of the Empire, beginning with the......

The Wealth And Progress Of New South Wales, 1897-8. By

T. A. Coghlan. (W. A. Gullick, Sydney, N.S.W.)—This is the eleventh issue of the official statistics of the Colony. So large a volume—it exceeds a thousand pages—necessarily......

Glimpses Of Old Bombay And Western India. By James Douglas.

(Sampson, Low, Marston, and Co. 20s.)—It is scarcely neces- sary to say that this volume, which is of goodly magnitude and handsome appearance, contains a number of interesting......

Malay Magic. By W. W. Skeat. (macmillan And Co. 21s.)—

The student of comparative folk-lore would find a great deal to interest him in Mr. Skeat's volume. The witchcraft of the Malay has not been so very long extinct in our own......

Josiah Viney : A Record Of His Life And Work.

Ey Henry Johnson. (Elliot Stock. 59.)—Mr. Piney was a Congregational minister who had charges at Herne Bay, Bethnal Green, and Highgate successively. He retired from pastoral......