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The Cornhill Magazine. Jubilee Number. (smith, Elder, And...

January number of the Cornhill appears in a new white and yellow cover to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its first publication. But the celebration is not merely......

The Revision Of The Prayer - Book. By The Rev. H. C.

Beeching. (Hodder and Stoughton. ls.)—Canon Beeching publishes here hvo :sermons preached by him in Westminster Abbey during his October residence. He urges in them a moderate......

We Have Received Two Further Volumes In The Series Of

"Masters of Literature" (G. Bell and Sons, 3s. 6d. per vol.) The plan is to make a selection of representative passages, and to preface these with a biographical and critical......

From Cradle To School. By The Late Man. Ada Bailin.

(A. ' Constable and Co. Is. net.)—The subject of this book is sufficiently indicated by its title. It supplies the mother with directions for the management of a child from......

From Ship's - Boy To Skipper. By H. G. Moffat. (alex....

Paisley. 3s. 6d.)—" With variations," Mr. Moffat adds to his description of his career. He did not, indeed, go straight on from the beginning. He worked in a printing office......

.a. Third Volume In A Really Great Undertaking, In English

Homes, has been received from the publishers (Country Life). The price is £2 25. net The volume is equal to its predecessors;, more we ;need not say. There is no country which......

Christians At Mecca. By Augustus Belli. (w. Heinemaim....

Ralli introduces his subject by giving us an account of the circumstances which have brought about the. sanctity of Mecca, and of the incidents of the pilgrimages. The list of......

Some Anthologies May Be Mentioned Together :—the Dublin...

Irish Verse, 1729 - 1909. Edited by John Cooke. (11bdges, Figgis, and Co., Dublin. 7s. 6d. net.)—There are five hundred and twenty-six poems collected in this volume, together......

Curiosities Of The Sky. By Garrett P. Serviss. (harper And

Brothers. 6s. net.)—Mr. Serviss, representing, as he does, the latest development of astronomical knowledge, disposes of some favourite notions, while he gives us other things......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this lieadin we not:ce such Books of the week as hays not been reserved for review in other forms.] Facts of Radical Misgovernment and the Home Rule Question Down to......