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The Life Of Reverdy Johnson, By Bernard C. Steiner...

: Norman, Remington Co., $2 . 50 net), describes the respectable career of the man who, for many years after Daniel Webster's death, was regarded as the leading American lawyer.......

The Late Thomas Westwood Lived In Brussels From 1846 To

1888. A Literary Friendship (John Murray, 5s. net) is a pleasant little collection of his letters to Lady Alwyne Compton. He describes Charlotte Bront6 as "broken-hearted and......

Mr. Edmund G. Gardner Has Skilfully Edited, For The...

Library," a reprint in dignified type of A Platonick Discourse upon Love (Grant Richards, 12s. net), translated in 1651 by Thomas Stanley from the original of Pico della......

Professor E. G. Sihler's "political And Literary...

of Arpinum (Humphrey Milford, for the Yale Uni- versity Press, 10s. 6d. net) is dedicated to the late Professor Tyrrell, who hailed it as " a decisive counterblast to Mommsen......

A Readable Narrative Of Travel In A Little-known Part Of

the British Empire is given by Mr. John R. Raphael in Through Unknown Nigeria (T. Werner Laurie, 15s. net). Most of the chapters were written during the actual journey, and this......

The Balliol College Register, 1832-1914, Edited By Edward...

: printed for private circulation at the Univer- sity Press), is a " Who's Who" of Balliol men now living. It contains some very distinguished names, arranged in alpha- betical......