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Hertslet's China Treaties. By Godfrey E. P. Hertslet,...

Assistance of Edward Parkes. 2 vols. (H.M. Stationery Office. 35s.)—This is a third edition. The first, quite a small volume, appeared in 1877, and was the work of Sir Edward......

The Third Volume Of Gardens Old And New, Edited By

H. Avray Tipping, M.A. (Country Life, 42s. net), contains accounts, amply illustrated, of thirty-four gardens, all more or less famous. The best known among them are Hatfield......

The Geographical Journal : January—june, 1908 (royal...

with Sir Clements Markbam's Memoir of Admiral Sir Leopold McClintock. McClintock's first Arctic experience was in 1848—he was then twenty-nine—as Second Lieutenant of the......

In The Series Of "heath's English Classics" (d. C. Heath

and Co., 1s), we have Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, Edited by M. Hall Shackford, Ph.D. (The notes are brief and to the point. The preliminary account of the Roman......

Dickens's Dictionary Of London (c. J. La.rby, Is. Net)...

in "a new edition, thoroughly revised and brought up to date." It is arranged in alphabetical order, and is furnished with a map in fifteen sections. It is a pity that this......

The Angel And The Author — And Others. By Jerome K. Jerome.

(Hurst and Blackett. 3s. 6d.)—There is plenty of humour and plenty of good sense in this volume, Mr. Jerome can make fun in a pleasant fashion of oddities among others and among......

The Kingdom Of Canada. By John S. Ewart, K.c. (morang

and Co., Toronto.)—There is much that is enlightening in this volume. Mr. Ewart speaks the thoughts of many Canadians, and speaks them in perfectly frank language. If England......