The Ninth Volume Of The London Topographical Record...
Society, 17 Baker Street, W.), in addition to the usual reports of the hard-working body which issues it, contains several articles of high merit. Dr. Philip Norman gives an......
All Readers Of Edward Fitzgerald's Delightful Letters...
he was interested in the adorable Madame de Sevign6. He devoted much of his abundant leisure to pre- paring a catalogue of the characters who figure in her correspondence, and......
Roderick, " Tbe Last Of The Goths," Has Many Crimes
to answer for, if tradition speak truly, but we doubt whether be was ever so lost to all sense of propriety as to say, "The dam indeed is scotched, but what of the lambkins P"......
Some Books Of The Week.
Enlist in this column doss not necessarily products subsequentrroinn] "For a couple of hundred years," says Mr. H. G. Wells in his introduction to Friendly Russia, by Denis......
Spacious Days. By Ralph Durand. (john Murray. Ca)—. In The
spacious days of Queen Elizabeth there arose a hot contention between one Jenson and one Davie, mariners both, for the love of fair Margaret and for the first landing on a far......
A Yorkshireman Abroad, By H J. Smith (john Long, 36.6d.),
is an undistinguished but readable narrative of a holiday tour through South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. The author was Chairman of the Bradford Health Committee when......
The Collection Of Popular Tales Is A Hobby Which Is
both pleasant for those who exercise it and entertaining to the rest of the world. We owe gratitude to Mr. H. Parker, late of the Ceylon Irrigation Department, for having put......
The Quarterly Statement Of The Palestine Exploration Fund...
(Palestine Exploration Fund, 23. net) contains, amongst other interesting articles, a learned discussion of the route of the Exodus by Lieutenant Victor L. Tramper, in which be......
Dr. Eduard Lasker Is One Of The Few Chess Players
of the first rank who have shown conspicuous ability in other intel. lectual fields. He is therefore exceptionally qualified for success in his attempt " to apply to chess the......
Readable Novelia—arundei. By E. F. Benson. (t. Fisher...
Benson is developing a dangerous tendency to conventionality and caricature ; but here and there in Arundel he gives us of Lis best work.—But She Meant Well, By William Caine.......
An Entertaining Volume Of True Irish Ghost Stories Has Been
compiled by the Rev. St. John D. Seymour and Mr. Harry L. Neligan (Humphrey Milford, 3s. 6d. net). By the epithet "true" it is meant that the majority of the stories were sent......
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