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Literary Blunders. By H. B. Wheatley. (elliot Stock. Is. 6d.

net.) —This is a "popular edition" of a very amusing book. Some of the stories are very curious. Who would have thought that Mr. Gladstone would have made Daniel walk in the......

Imperialism. By Dr. Emil Reich. (hutchinson And Co. 2s. 6d.

net.)—Imperialism seems, according to Dr. Reich, to be answer- able for a great many evil things; and this is all the harder for Imperial nations, because Empire comes to them......

Bradshaw's Railway Manual And Shareholder's Guide And...

Co. 12s.) —It will be sufficient to quote by way of notice of this work, now in its fifty-seventh year, the description of its contents given on the title-page. It contains "the......

The Stock Exchange Official Intelligence For 1905. Edited...

Secretary of the Share and Loan Department. (Spottis- woode and Co. 50s.)—The special articles in this volume are "Company Law in 1904," "National Debts of the World," "Colonial......

The Complete Bridge - Player. By " Cut Cavendish." (t....

6d. net.)—There is much to be learntfrom this book. Doctors, of course, disagree about bridge as about everything else; but "Cut Cavendish's" counsels appear to be well......

Historical Criticism And The New Testament. By Pere J. M.

Lagrange. Translated by Edward Myers. (Catholic Truth Society. 2s. 6d.)—The utterances of this book, which appears, it should be said, with the imprimatur of ecclesiastical......

In The Preface To The New Edition Of Richard Jeffries:

his Life and his Ideals, by H. S. Salt (A. C. Fifield, is. 6c1. not), the author writes : "The complaint made by the Spectator that I have obtruded my own views about Jefferies,......

New Eutnows. — Unbeaten Tracks In Japan. By Isabella L....

Bishop). (John Murray. 2s. 6d. net.)--English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages. By J. J. Jusserand. (T. Fisher Unwia. 2s. 6d. net.)—The Will of God, and other Devotional......

Poverty A Social Disease. By The Rev. W. Edward Chadwick.

(S.P.C.K. 21.) —There is sound sense with the practical know- ledge acquired by experience in every page of Mr. Chadwick's pamphlet. We may give as an example the analogy which......

The Young Preacher's Guide. By The Rev. Gilbert Monks....

Stock. Is. 6(1. net.)—Mr. Monks's sub-title, "Secrets of Success in Sacred Oratory," is less happy than the name given to his book. Young preachers have much to learn, and,......