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Milton's England. By Lucia Ames Mead. (eveleigh Nash. 6s....

Mead puts together in this volume practically all that is known about the outside facts of Milton's life, and illus- trates them from the places in which he dwelt,—London, Cam-......

Nxw Editions. —the Text-book Of ,geology. By Sir...

vols. (Macmillan and Co. 30s. net.)—A fourth edition, revised and brought up to date ; in fact, generally fitted to retain its place as a standard book of reference.—Rural......

Wonderful Weans. By Mackenzie Macbride. (t. Fisher Unwin....

must own that, in our lamentable Southern ignorance, we find these stories a little hard to follow. Our Northern neighbours have many dialects, of which the Aberdeen is, we take......

Gold Coast Native Institutions. By C. Hayford. (sweet And...

15s.)—" Thoughts upon a Healthy Imperial Policy for the Gold Coast and Ashanti" is the subtitle of Mr. Hayford's book, and the author's general object is given by him in his "......

Ancient Calendars , And Constellations. By The Hon....

(John Murray. 9s. net.)—Miss Plunket's calcula- tions are too complicated to be put in a compendious form before our readers. Her first paper deals with the Accadian Calendar,......

Pearson's Irish Reciter (c. A. Pearson, 2s. 6d.) Contains...

than a hundred pieces in prose and verse, " legendary," "patriotic," "humorous," from various authors, among whom may be mentioned Archbishop Alexander, S. Lover, A.' P. Graves,......