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Pity The Poor Birds. By Augustus Jessopp, D.d....

Jessopp showed his pity for the birds by planting a copse This work he describes, and it makes an interesting episode. Planting, so it be done judiciously, is not unprofitable.......

Tales Of The Yorkshire Trolds. By J. Keighley Snowden....

Low, Marston, and Co.)—There is a great deal of power, true power of character-drawing, in these thirteen sketches of life on the Wolds. We do not look for Arcadian or......

Help To The Study Of The Book Of Common Prayer.

(Clarendon Press.)—A. very complete and useful "Companion to Church Worship." The first section deals with "the structure of a Church and the meaning of its several parts." Here......

New Light On The Bible And The Holy Land. By

Basil T. Evetts. (Cassell and Co.)—Mr. Evetts has collected into this volume a considerable quantity of information scattered in various books and periodicals. He gives an......

Porlock Church. By The Rev. Walter Hook. (parker And Sons.)

—Porlock Church, dedicated to St. Dubricius, "the high saint Dubric " of the Idylls, is a church with some interesting associa- tions. Dubricius died early in the seventh......

Courtship And Marriage. By Annie S. Swan (mrs. Burnett...

(Hutchinson and Co.)—There is plenty of good feeling and good sense in this volume. The author has good advice to give to per- sons "intending to marry," or already married, and......

The Books Of Ezra And Nehemiah. With Introduction, Notes,...

Maps, by Herbert Edward Kyle, D.D. (Cambridge University Press.)—This is a volume of the series entitled "The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges." Professor Kyle's......

The Sunny Days Of Youth. By The Author Of "how

to be Happy though Married." (T. Fisher Unwin.)—The author of "How to be Happy though Married" is not likely to repeat the very exceptional success which followed his first book......

Raymond's Folly. By B. Paul Neumann. (t. Fisher Unwin.)—...

"story of an experiment in Utopia" may be read with profit. It tells how a man, who had his way smoothed for him by the possession of means, founded clubs for young men and......

Mr. Bailey - Martin. By Percy White. (w. Heinemann.)—this...

clever character-sketch indeed. Mr. Bailey-Martin tells us his story from childhood to mature age, and in telling it draws a curiously minute and lifelike picture of an......

The Fool Of Fate. By Mary H. Tennyson. (ward, Lock,

and Bowden.)—The 'Fool of Fate" is a young gentleman who ruins his life and the life of a woman whom he sincerely loves by the habit of inveterate lying. He invents romantic......

A. Prison Princess. By Major Arthur Griffiths. (cassell...

"Romance of Millbank Penitentiary" is a romance indeed. It has a look of having some truth in it and a great deal more fiction ; but the mixture has been effected with no little......