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Life And Nei' Children. By Arabella B. Buckley....

one can popularise science better than Miss Buckley. This volume about the lower orders of life—if, indeed, the dwellers in each marvellous communities as bee-hives and......

The Expiring Continent. By Alex. W. Mitchinson. (w. 11....

and Co.)—It is not difficult to guess that the "expiring con- tinent" is Africa. One is used to seeing strange epithets applied to it, but why " expiring ?" Many people think......

The Chwch In Relation To The State. By Edward Miller,

MA. (C. Kogan Paul and Co.)—The question here discussed, there can be hardly a doubt, is one which will soon engage the attention of Eng- lish statesmen. Of all qnestions, it......

The Crypt Of Canieaury Cathedral. By W. A. Scott Robertson,

M.A. (Mitchell and Hughes.)---Mr. Robertson urns made a worthy return for the distinction of an honorary stall which ho holds in Can- terbury Cathedral. The Crypt, winch he......

The Aryan Village In India And Ceylon. By Sir John

B. Phear. (Macmillan.)—After an introduction which deals with the outline of ethnology as bearing on the origin of the Bengal population, and with some illustrative parallels in......

.711 - Adga Dunraven. By The Author Of "the Queen Of...

(Bentley.)—In this very Irish novel, Mr. Dunraven, his son Conn, and his niece Madge, are brought over from their native Ballymey and their ancestral castle of Shrauamonragh to......