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The Sweet O' The Year : Thoughts From A Village

Garden. By Emily Ridgway. (J. E. Cornish, Manchester. 3s. tld. net.)—The title might seem to mean that season which is called the "sweet o' the year,"—late spring and early......

The Life Of Richard Steward. By The Late Nicholas Pocock.

(Masters and Co. 3s. 6d.)—This work was left in MS. by its author at his death in 1897, and scarcely called for publication. It seems to us to lack the historical spirit ; Mr.......

The Tidong Dialects Of Borneo, By Mervyn W. H. Beech,

M.A. (The Clarendon Press. 5s. net.)—Mr. Beech was for three years District Officer at Tawao, in British North Borneo. Here he learnt the Tidong language, being, indeed, the......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading itS notice suoh Books of the tusk al hoe, not Wen rsserved for 11111141117 in other ferns.] The Lawrences of the Punjab. By Frederick P. Gibbon. (J. M. Dent......

Daily Mail Year Book. Edited By Percy L. Parker. (associated

Newspapers. Cl. net.)—The purchaser will get a quite amazing amount of information for his money, and not information only, but speculation also. Home and foreign politics,......

We Mention With Sympathy And Hearty Good Wishes For The

success of the society whose operations it chronicles, The Tenth Annual Report of Our Dumb Friends' League (118 Victoria Street). It chronicles many acts of kindness to various......

The Quarterlies.

Tan able article on " The Value of the Territorial Force " with which this number of the Quarterly begins is scarcely hopeful as regards the success of Mr. Haldane's scheme ;......

The Hibbert Journal. Edited By L. P. Jacks, M.a., And

G. Dawes Hicks, Litt.D. (Williams and Norgate. 12s. net.)—Here are nearly fifty articles, with supplemental matter, running to but little short of a thousand pages. Any one of......