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Meditations In The Tea - Room. By M.p. (pickering And...

reprinted essays'are fairly good reading, with just a sub-acid dash of satire in them. The English Constitution and method of government afford endless opportunities of......

Christian Profiles In A Pagan Mirror. By Joseph Parker,...

Minister of the City Temple, London. (Hurst and Blackett.) —In this volume a cultivated Indian lady is supposed to give her impressions of English Christianity, in a series of......

The Field Of Clover. By Laurence Housman. (kogan Paul,...

and Co. 6s.)—The stories in this book are very attractive. The first one is worked out on the traditional fairy-tale plan, in which the kind-hearted hero shows hospitality to......

In Quest Of The Holy Graal. By Sebastian Evans, Ll.d.

(J. M. Dent and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Evans is of opinion that the Graal legends are an elaborate allegory of the struggle between Pope Innocent III., John of England, Philip of......

Ellen Terry And Her Impersonations : An Appreciation. By C.

Hiatt. (G. Bell and Sons. 5s.)—This book will sell,—let a reviewer say what he may. But it is, as a matter of fact, a per- fectly delightful set of illustrations of Miss Ellen......

In The " Story Of The Empire Series " (horace

Marshall and Son) we have to notice The Story of Canada, by Howard A. Kennedy, and The Story of South Africa, by W. Basil Worsfold. Both these are striking little books. In the......

The Way The World Went Then. By Isabella Barclay. (edward

Stanford.)—Miss Helen Blackburn and Miss Palliser have edited this charming "story of the world," for its writer is dead, and so is the child for whom it was put together. It is......

Tutorial Latin Dictionary. By P.o. Plaistow E. (w. B. Clive.

6s. 6d.) —This is a volume of the " University Tutorial Series." It aims at giving every word to be found in authors commonly road. A useful feature is that it gives proper......