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Alfred Tennyson. By G. K. Chesterton And Dr. Richard...

(Hodder and Stoughton. ls. net.)—This is one of '" The Bookman Biographies," a well-written summary of the facts of Tennyson's life, illustrated with portraits—there are twelve......

Heliotropes. By John Parmenter. Edited By Percival...

Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—John Parmenter was incumbent of a chapel at Wingham, in Kent (now a vicarage of £157 gross value, with £1,368 impropriated tithe) between 1570 and 1629. He......

Picturesque Cheshire. By T. A. Coward. (sherratt And...

5s. net.)—Cheshire has a great variety of interesting places in it. Its capital tovrii, with its old houses and almost complete circle of walls, has hardly a rival in England.......

Nzw Editions. —the Vicar Of Wakefield. By Oliver Gold-...

and C. Black. 7s. Gd. net.)—This edition is preceded by a prefatory note, and by John Forsteee essay. And it is illustrated with reproductions of a number of water-colour......

Two Little Handbooks The Use Of Which Is Sufficiently...

by their titles may be mentioned together. These are The A B C of Stamp Collecting, by F. J. Melville ; and The A B C of the Rifle, by Herbert A. Jones (Henry J. Drane, ls.......

N'hitaker's Almanac, 1904 (12 Warwick Lane, 2s. 6d. Net), Is

as prompt as usual in accommodating itself to the wants of the time. In this volume, accordingly, we have the "British Share of the World's Commerce," " Statistics of Trade for......

Who's Who, 1904. (a. And C. Black. 7s. Gd. Net.)—this

annual, now in its fifty-sixth year, continues to increase in range and bulk. It has now reached seventeen hundred pages, and gives, perhaps, four times that number of......

We Are Obliged To Pass Over Without Notice Most Of

the many volumes of sermons which reach us, but we must find space for a few words of welcome to a volume which may be described as the firstfruits of a ministry which cannot......

In Mr. John Long's Series Of " Modern Classics "

we have, following up Anthony Trollope's "Three Clerks," Charles Reade's Cloister and the Hearth. This, as our readers are probably aware, is a novel of unusual length. (It......