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On The Threshold Of Central Africa. By Francois Coillard....

from the French and edited by his Niece, C. W. Mack- intosh. (Hodder and Stoughton. 15s.)—M. Coillard, who has spent more than thirty years in Africa, is a missionary first and......

The Minister Of State. By John A. Steuart. (w. Heinemann.)

—Evan Kinloch rises from being a herd-boy in Arcadia to a. very giddy eminence in Babylon by an unbroken series of suc- cesses. The first part of the story is, to our taste, the......

Hoyle's Games Modernised. Edited By Professor Hoffmann....

Sons.)—Edmund Hoyle published his "Short Treatise on the Games of Whist" in 1742. (He was then seventy years of age, and lived twenty-seven years longer.) Fourteen editions,......

History Of Cambridgeshire. By The Rev. E. Conybeare.

Stock. 7s.6d.)—Mr. Conybeare does his subject full justice, both in respect of the industry with which he has prosecuted research and of the vigour with which he presents its......

The Variorum Aids To The Bible Student. With...

and described by Rev. C. J. Ball, M.A. (Eyre and Spottis woode.)—These "Students' Aids" naturally increase in bulk and become more definite and generally available as time goes......