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The Insurance Register. (charles And Edward Layton.)—...

of this volume are the abstracts of the income, expenditure, funds, rate of interest obtained, of the various insurance companies. We observe that of seventy-one life assurance......

The Clergy List, 1898. (kelly's Directories. 10s....

of this veteran directory is carefully edited, and probably gives as good an account of the Church, the clergy, the dignities and dignitaries, benefices, and so forth, as could......

Mr. Frazer's Pactsania.s.* This Is A Great Work, Which Will

go a long way to remove the reproach that English scholars content themselves with • Pausanias's Description of Greece. Translated, with • Commentary. bf J. G. Frazer. In 6......

The Bible And Its Transmission : Being An Historical And

Bio- graphical View of the Hebrew and Greek Texts; and the Greek, Latin, and other Versions of the Bible (both MSS. and printed) prior to the Reformation. By Walter Arthur......

A New English Dictionary. By Dr. James A. H. Murray.

" H- Haversian.' (Clarendon Press.)—This part, the first instal- ment of VoL V., contains 3,815 words, mostly Teutonic in origin, almost exactly eleven times the number in......

Current Literature.

Decorat ive Heraldry. By G. W. Eve. (G. Bell and Sons. 10s. 6d.) —If Mr. Eve had done no more than publish these examples of the successful treatment of heraldic devices which......

The Queen's Empire Illustrated From Photographs. (cassell...

presentment of the Empire contained in the large photographs collected in this handsome book will give people who understand things best by pictures an excellent idea of the......

A Lowden Sabbath Morn. By R. L. Stevenson. With 27

Illustrations by A. S. Boyd. (Chatto and Windus.)—These illus- trations to Mr. Stevenson's " Scots" poem are distinctly clever, especially in their characterisation of the......

New Edition8.-a. Study Of The Saviour In The Newer Light.

By Alex. Robinson, B.D. (Williams and Norgate.)—The Early Days of Christianity. By Dean Farrar. (Cassell and Co.)— Natural Religion. By F. Max Muller. (Longmans and Co.) The......

Gossip From A Muniment Room. Transcribed And Edited By Lady

Newdigate-Newdigate. (David Nutt.) — This book contains "passages from the Lives of Anne and Mary Fytton." It may be remembered that Mr. Tyler attempted to show that Mary Fytton......