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Plagues And Pleasures In Bengal.

Plagues and Pleasures of Life in Bengal. By Lieutenant - Colonel D. D. Cunningham, C.I.E., F.R.S. (John Murray. 12s. net.)—It is well to point out to those who are unacquainted......

A Plant Book For Schools.

A Plant Book for Schools: being an Easy Introduction to the Study of Plant Life. By Otto V. Darbishire, B.A. (Oxon.), Ph.D. (Kiel). Containing 108 Illustrations from Photographs......

Nature Studies By Night And Day.

Nature Studies by Night and Day. By F. C. Snell. (T. Fisher Unwin. 5s.)—The naturalist-photographer who publishes a volume of slender natural history studies, illustrated with......

Some British Birds.

Some British Birds. Edited by Edward Thomas. With 12 Illus- trations in Colour. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—These seventeen essays on birds and bird life, which are now......

Two Books On Egypt.

Tart of the "Historical Series for Bible Students" which Pro- fessor C. F. Kent and Mr. Frank K. Sanders are conducting, and accordingly it has the characteristics of a......

The First English In Canada.

The First English Conquest of Canada : with Some Account of the Earliest Settlements in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. By Henry Kirke, M.A., B.C.L., F.R.G.S. Second Edition,......

Italica.

Italica : Studies in Italian Life and Letters. By William Roscoe Thayer. (A. Constable and Co. 6s. net.)—In Italica, to speak widely, we have the impressions made by modern......

Close To Nature's Heart.

Close to Nature's Heart. By William McConachie, B.D. With Frontispiece. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 3s. 6d. net.)—The writer of these sketches is minister of Lauder, and the Nature......