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Food From The Far West : Or, American Agriculture, With

Special Reference to the Beef-Production and Importation of Dead Meat from America to Great Britain. By James Macdonald. (W. P. Nimmo.)— Mr. Macdonald was commissioned, he tells......

Winna. A Novel. (charing Cross Publishing Company.)—in...

faulty construction, and a curiously blundering style, we are disposed to speak favourably of this story, mainly because it is, that best of all things in a novel, interesting.......

Current Literature.

Expository Essays and Discourses. By Ssmuel Cox. (Hodder• end Stoughton.)—This volume is full "earned and ingenious comment on various difficult theological subjects and obscure......

Money, And Its Laws. By H. V. Poor. (c. Kegan

Paul and Co.)— Mr. Poor is hard on political economists. Beginning with Aristotle, who was "eminently unscientific," he carries us down in a history of monetary theories to......

Waifs And Strays From The Far East, Being A Series

of Disconnected Essays on Matters relating to China. By Frederic Henry Balfour. (Ti iihnor and Co )—We do not know if this is Mr. Balfour's first appearance in the world of......