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Half - A - Century Of Australasian Progress. By W....

Co.)—The light which Mr. Westgarth's retro- spect of Australasian progress throws on the prosperity of Australia and New Zealand is both bright and searching. He went out to......

A History Of Bridgewater. By Sydney Gardner Jameson....

early history of Bridgewater is soon told. The neighbouring country, though not the place itself, comes into notice as the scene of some of King Alfred's fiercest struggles with......

The Contemporary History Of The French Revolution....

Bayford Harrison. (Rivingtons.)—Mr. Harrison has gone to the Annual Register of the time for his "contemporary history." "Nothing is omitted," he says, "which is essential,......

Burns : Selected Poems. Edited, With Introduction, Notes,...

Glossary, by J. Logie Robertson, M.A. (Clarendon Press.)—In these days, when scraps of little or no value, often rejected by their writers, are raked up, we welcome so sensible......