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This Volume, As Usual, Contains Much Interesting And...

There are papers on cottages—as, for instance, on " Cottages to Cost Less than £150 each "—on the Management of Estates, on Farm and Estate Accounts, on Fruit-growing, on......

The Use Of Penitence. By Edward T. Churton. (mowbray And

Co.)—We cannot discuss all the questions raised in this book. They are indeed of a nature which makes them mostly unsuitable to these columns. Dr. Churton seems to hold views of......

Berlin, And His "impressions Of The German Emperor." He Does

not, it is true, let the public into any secrets—there is nothing, for instance, about the alleged intention of the Continental Powers to interfere on behalf of Spain—but ho has......

Handbook Of Cyprus. Compiled By Sir J. T. Hutchinson And

Claude Delaval Cobham. (E. Stanford. 2s. 6d. net.)—A handbook, compiled by the Chief Justice and the Commissioner of Larnaca, which introduces itself by a quotation from the "......

Leaves From The Past. By Clement Young Sturge, M.a. (i.

W. Arrowsmith. 6s. and 7s. 6d.)—Mr. John Allen, a Friend, who followed the occupation of a brewer at Wapping during the latter decades of the eighteenth century and the first......

The Religious Controversies Of Scotland. By The Rev....

Henderson. (T. and T. Clark. 4s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Henderson takes in a period of something less than two centuries. His first chapter relates to the " Simson Affair "—John Simson......

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THE RELATION OF NATIONAL SERVICE- TO THE WELFARE OF THE COMMUNITY. The Relation of National Service to the Welfare of the Community, By T. C. Horsfall. (Sherratt and Hughes. 6d)......

A Biographical History Reader. Arranged By Beatrice A....

and C. Black. 2s. 6d.)—This is substantially a reprint from the series of "History in Biography." There are twenty-two biographies, of which King Alfred is the subject of the......