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Finch And Baines: A Serenteenth Century Friendship. By...

(Cambridge University Press. 10. ad. not.) —Sir John Finch and Sir Thomas Baines wore two eminent physicians of the seventeenth century. From their college days at Christ's,......

Messrs. Nelson Have Added To Their Series Of Cheap And

good reprints that fascinating book, Mr. Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands (Is. net), with Lord Rosebery's able hook on Napoleon : The Last Phase (Is. 3d. not) ;......

Nxw Coorery Bscipes.—there Is A Certain Sameness In The...

given by many of the cookery-books now being published, but now and again one funds novelties which the housewife will be glad to add to her menu. In Patriotism and Plenty, by......

Worms Or Rerearnmir-crockford's Clerical Directory For...

and Queen, NM.), though it appears later than usual in the year, is as admirable as ever in its fulness and accuracy. The editor in his Preface deals at some length with the......

We Have Received From Messrs. R. Cambray And Co., Of

Calcutta, the first of three volumes of a welcome reprint of the famous Fifth Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Affairs of the East India Company,......