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Religions Of Primitive Peoples. By Professor D. G....

P. Putnam's Sons.)—This is the second of four courses of American lectures on the " History of Religions," two of which have been delivered, and the remaining two of which will......

For His Country's Sake. By L. Il P. Black. (horace

Cox.) —Esca, a Prince of the British Kingdom of Damnonia, gives himself up to satisfy the Roman demand for a victim. (Hostages the Romans were wont to ask, but we feel doubtful......

The Blood Of The Vampire. By Florence Marryat. (hutchin- Son

and Co.)—The heroine of this most unpleasant story is the daughter of a quadroon and a Jamaican planter of a cruel and scientific turn of mind. Her grandmother having been......

The Law Of Mines And Mining In The United States.

By Daniel Moreau Barringer and John Stokes Adams. (Little, Brown, and Co., Boston.)—This is a very comprehensive treatise on a vast subject by two members of the Philadelphia......

Rome, The Middle Of The World. By Alice Gardner. (e.

Arnold.) —This is a book of which the design and the execution may be. praised without reserve. Miss Gardner wishes her reader to see the inner meaning of history. Picturesque......

Vittorino Da Feltre, And Other Humanist Educators. By...

Woodward. (Cambridge University Press.)—Vittorino, surnamed da Feltre, from his birthplace in the Paduan territory, was not of the type which the mention of Italian scholars of......

In Historical Greek Grammar. By A. N. Jannaris, Ph.d....

and Co. 25s. net.)—Dr. Jannaris—he lectures at St Andrews on "Post-Classical and Modern Greek "—has given to' the world in this volume a work of monumental industry. " Iv have......

Lady Croome's Secret. By Marie Zimmermann. (w. H....

secret is not revealed till the very last, nor indeed will any one guess who the person she meets in the park is. The secret estranges her husband, a widower twice as old as she......