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3s.)—this Somewhat Cumbrous Title (could Not Something...

been contrived ?) means the succession of parochial incumbents in all the parishes of the diocese of London. Mr. Hennesay,has taken a vast amount of pains with his work,......

Paradise Lost With An Introduction And Notes By Sohn A.

Himes. (Harper and Brothers.)—In his interesting introduction Mr. Himes gives i curious diagram of Milton's Universe, and Satan's course from Hell, at the extreme left, through......

Lyrical Ballads. By William Wordsworth And S. T....

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Whitaker's Naval And Military Directory, 1898. (whitaker...

a new publication, which may be briefly described as a very handy "Army List" and " Navy List" in one. Mr. Laird Clowes has written an historical account of the Navy, and the......

Comfort And Cleanliness. By Mrs. C. M. Buckton. (longmans...

Co.)—This is a little book of practical advice to house- mothers about their work of superintending the daily routine of work, and the special , occasions of "spring cleaning"......

Poets' Walk : An Introduction To English Poetry. Chosen And

Arranged by Mowbray Morris. New and Revised Edition. (Macmillan and Co.)—This volume dedicated to Eton boys and also, as Mr. Morris says in the preface, to "children of a larger......

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,......

On London Stones. By Catherine March. (clarke And Co.)—...

Varondie's father is a leading member in a secret political society, and she is a young woman of a very strong will and decided character. How she contrives to love so very......

A Slight Romance. By Edith Leverett Dalton. (damrell And...

Boston, U.S.)—" Slight" this little study of first love certainly is, but it is well thought out and well written. Graci/is has nothing to do with " graceful " (though one's......

Other Peoples' Lives. By Rosa Nouchette Carey. (hodder...

Miss Carey writes is sure to be good, but of these stories—distinct in a way, but with a certain con- nection—some are in her best manner. The "Two Mothers," for instance, with......

Boyhood. By Ennis Richmond. (longmans And Co.)—mrs....

book "a plea for continuity in education," meaning education and higher sense of spiritual and moral training. There is much excellent counsel in it, which parents will do well......

Sunlight And Limelight. By Francis Gribble. (a. D Banes And

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