1 AUGUST 1908, page 20

English Local Government.* We Here Have A Second...

the great compilation by which Mr. and Mrs. Webb are illustrating the history of English local government. In an earlier work they have dealt with the history of the parish and......

Legends Of Saints And Birds.t

WE have here a collection of stories that have come down to us from the dim ages. There is a peculiar charm about these old tales of primitive times, and the writer of this......

A Scottish Epic.*

LORD CHESTERFIELD once said that a Bishop alone could be improved by translation. The language in which John Barbour, Archdeacon of Aberdeen, wrote his Bruce is ,archaic enough,......