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Tales From The Talmud.

Tales from the Talmud. By E. R. Montague. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—" A collection of tales which, sometimes quaint, sometimes marvellous, often of groat intrinsic beauty,......

The Nineteenth Century.

Progress of Science in the Century. By J. Arthur Thomson.— Progress of Art in the Century. By William Sharp and Elizabeth A. Sharp.—Discoveries and Explorations in the Century.......

The Book Of Mackay.

The Book of Mackay. By Angus Mackay. (Norman Macleod, Edinburgh.)—This is an excellent specimen of literature of the family history character. To the ordinary reader its size—......

The Chateaux Of Touraine.

The Chateaux of Touraine. By M. H. Lansdale. Illustrated with Pictures by Jules Guerin, and by Photographs. (Eveleigh Nash. 24s. net.)—The strange drawings of M. Guerin are......

The Future Of Our Canals.

Our Waterways. By Urquhart A. Forbes and W. H. R. Ashford. (J. Murray. 12s. net.)—Messrs. Forbes and Ashford have given us a valuable treatise on the past history and future......

More Tales By Uncle Remus.

For old sake's sake we should come to any book with Uncle Remus in it with pleasure ; but there is no disguising the fact that Mr. Joel Chandler Harris's new volume, Told by......