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Helps To The Study Of The Bible (oxford University Press)

is a most convenient and useful volume. The contents are thus summarised in the title :—" Analytical notes and summaries of the several books ; lists of animals, birds,......

Memoir Of The Rev. Henry Watson Fen, B.a. By The

Rev. G. T. Fox. (Religious Tract Society.)—This is a new edition of a book which was first published about thirty years ago. The subject of it was educated at Rugby, wont out as......

Jewish Life In The East. By Sydney Montagu Sarnue% (c.

Began Paul and Co.)—Mr. Samuel gives us a very interesting view, stated with perfect candour, of the condition of his nation in Egypt and in Palestine. Naturally, the chief......

A Thousand Thoughts, From Various Authors. Selected And...

Arthur B. Davison. (Longmans and Co.)—There is a freshness and novelty about this volume which books of extracts do not commonly possess. Mr. Davison has wandered far from the......

A Short Manual Of The History Of India. Vol. I.

By Roper Leth- bridge, M.A., C.I.E. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Lethbridge's com- pilation will make an admirable class-book, and it is to be hoped that English schoolmasters will......

Thrift Lessons : Familiar Letters. By John T. Walters, M.a.

(Hodder and Stoughton.)—Mr. Walters has it for his object to tell his readers how they may "thrive," for he points out that " thrift " is something much wider than the " saving"......

Short Readings For The Christian Year, Part L, Advent To

Easter, by E. W. Bodley (Skeffington), comes recommended by a preface from the Bishop of Tasmania. The writer's plan has been to take a short passage of Scripture, commonly from......

Twelve Months With The Bashi.razouks, By Edward Money...

is the second edition of a book which was published about twonty-throo years ago. It would be worth reading, if it wore only for the sake of seeing what a vast amount of money......

Principles Of Rhetoric. By A. S. Hill. (harper, New York

; Sampson Low, London.)—The title of this book sounds, perhaps, rather forbidding; but for all that, it is a book one may take up at a spare moment and open at random, with some......