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Handbook To Christian And Ecclesiastical Rome. By H. M. And

M. A. B. T. Part II. (A. and C. Black.)—This second volume treats of the Liturgy in Rome. The ceremonial, discipline, &c., of the Roman Church is given, and there is a special......

Four Hundred Animal Stories. Selected And Edited By...

(W. and R. Chambers.)—Readers of the Spectator will be grateful to Mr. Cochrane for the care and industry which he has used in collecting these stories. All kinds of animals......

Carmen Deo Nostro. Sacred Poems By Richard Crashaw....

J. Tutin. (W. Andrews and Co.)—Crashaw was metrically one of the most accomplished of English poets, but curiously enough his religious verse does not show him at his best as a......

Selections From The British Satirists. With An...

Cecil Headlam. (F. E. Robinson.)—The British satirists cover so large a field that they cannot be adequately represented in a volume of this size, especially as prose as well as......

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series of "Arnold's Practical Science Manuals," edited by Professor R. Meldola, F.R.S.—Popular Photographic Printing Procesus. By Hector Maclean. (L. Upcott Treatise on the Law......

Books Of Rentainics. — Debrett's House Of Commons And...

(Dean and Co., 7s. 6d.), appears in its usual form, and is as accurate as ever.—The same may be said of The Constitu- tional Year Book, 1898 (Conservative Central Offices),......

Reisarsts.—to The "temple" Edition Of The " Waverley...

and Co.) we note the addition of The Antiquary and Guy Mannering and Rob Roy. A more delightful little edition of Scott for the railway and the steamship it would be impossible......