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Science Teachings In Living Nature. By W. H. Watson....

—Here are five chapters on physiological chemistry and sanitary science. We are told something about the composition of the human body, something about the food of plants,......

Current Literature.

English Girls : their Place and Power. By Mrs. G. S. Reaney, with a Preface by R. W. Dale. (C. Regan Paul and Co.)—This is a small book, intended for the benefit of girls of the......

A Study Of Kea.ts.* Or All The Poets Who Have

died, before their time, Keats is, per- haps, the greatest. Fervid imagination, delicious fancy, the faculty of pictorial representation, an ear for exquisite music, are among......

Poetry.—ivan's Love-quest, And Other Poems. By Malcolm...

and Co.)—This is a small book of poems, apparently of the sensuous and materialistic order as to thought, and certainly mystical in expression ; not, however, pos- sessing the......

Town And Window Gardening. By Catherine M. Buckton....

little book cannot fail to prove useful in encouraging a taste for the cultivation of window plants amongst children, and especially amongst the children of the poor. It......