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2gfolia : Its Geography, Topography, And Antiquities. By...

Woodhouse. (The Clarendon Press. 21s. net.)—This handsome volume does great credit at once to the devotion and industry of its author, and to the enterprise of the Clarendon......

The Seek Of Monte Carlo. By Walter Frith. (arrowsmith,...

story is told by Vincent Blacker, to whom the idea of plundering the gaming-tables at Monte Carlo first occurs. The morality of the affair, Blacker remarks, is justified by the......

In The Series Of The "cambridge Bible For Schools"...

University Press), we have received The First Book of Maccabees, edited by W. Fairweather, M.A., and J. Sutherland Black, LL.D. We are glad that this book has been taken in......

Work And Play In Girls' Schools (longmans And Co., 7s.

6d.) is a set of essays by many Mistresses and a few Masters dealing with girls' day-schools and boarding-schools. The ideal of the whole book is, we imagine, summed up in the......

The Blues And The Brigands. By M. M. Blake. (jerrold

and Sons.)—Miss Blake has made an interesting story out of the French Revolution, dealing particularly with that part which contains the siege of Nantes by the Vend6ans. But we......

(mum Didascali. By Walter Hobhouse, Ma. (macmillan And...

much obliged to Mr. Hobhouse for giving us these "fair copies" (sixty-five in all, of which about one-third are in Greek). There are still some who are faithful to the love of......

Report Of The Royal Commission On Vaccination. By John C.

McVail, M.D. (P. S. King and Co.)—Dr. McVail examines the statement put forward by the two dissentient members of the Commission, Dr. W. J. Collins and Mr. J. A. Picton. His......