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Joel Dorman Steele. By Mrs. George Archibald. (gay And Bird.

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The Thirty - Second Annual Co - Operative Congress, 1900....

Gray. (Co-operative Union, Manchester.)—We cannot pretend to give anything like an adequate account of this very important document. Its figures are certainly impressive.......

Chaucer Memorial Lectures. Edited By . Percy W. Ames....

Co. 6s. net.)—This volume contains five lectures giving in a popular form an account of Chaucer, his times, and his poems. The editor furnishes an introduction in which he......

Scrool - Boons.--exercises In The Syntax And Idioms Of...

W. H. D. Rouse and J. M. Sing. (Rivingtons. 35.6d ) —These exercises, meant for upper forms, as a store of useful materials, are arranged on a system. First the pupil is exer-......

The Battle Of Maldon, And Other Renderings From The Anglo-

Saxon. By F. W. L. B. (J. Parker and Co., Oxford. 3s. 6d.)—The song of the great fight at Maldon (fought in 991 between the English and the Danes) is one of the most famous of......

Miscellaneous.—the Flora Of Bournemouth, Including The...

Edward E. Linton, M.A. (H. G. Commin, Bournemouth. 83.6d. net.)—Mr. Linton concedes that the immediate neighbour- hood of Bournemouth is not rich in flowers—save for the autumn......