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Select Fragments Of The Greek Comic Poets. Edited By A.

W. Pickard-Cambridge. (Clareneon Press. 5s.)—By " Comic Poets" the editor means the writers of G reek comedy, a very numerous class, reaching over a period of nearly three......

Child Life In Colonial Days. By Alice Morse Earle....

and Co. 8s. 6d. net.) - Mrs. Earle continues, with excellent result, her search into the records, printed and painted, of the Colonial—i.e., the pre-Independence—days of the......

Louis Napoleon And Mademoiselle De Montijo. By Inalert De...

Translated by Elizabeth Gilbert Martin. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—M. de Saint-Amand was not one of those who held aloof from the Court of the Second Empire. On the contrary, he......

Lucian, The Syrian Satirist. By Lieutenant-colonel Henry...

(Longmans and Co. 51. net.)—Colonel Rime, we are inclined to say, takes Lucian too seriously. The grave indigna- tion which he expresses at the frivolous and heartless......

The Downfall Of Spain : Naval History Of The...

War. By H. W. Wilson. With Illustrations. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 14s.)—These chapters on the battles of Manila and Santiago probably represent the final statement of the......

Handbook Of The Coins Of Great Brita;n And Ireland In

the British Museum. By Herbert A. Grueber, F.S.A. With 64 Plates. (British Museum Trustees.)—We have in this comprehensive guide a description of 1,342 coins, ranging from circa......

In Professor Arbor's Series Of Anthologies We Have The...

Anthology, 154S - 1591 A.D. (H. Frowde, 2s. 6d.), appearing after volumes later in date. Spenser himself occupies about a fifth of the volume, two considerable extracts being......

The Midland Churches. By George Eyre Evans. (herald...

Dudley. 21s. net.)—By " churches " is meant the "congregations on the rolls of the Midland Christian Union." These are, we suppose, of the English Presbyterian body, and hold......