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Bulawayo Up-to-date. Edited And Enlarged By Walter H....

J. Hall, jun. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 2s. net.)—" A General Sketch of Rhodesia" is the sub-title of this volume. It will easily be seen, therefore, that it includes many......

The Armies Of The World. By Charles S. Jerram. (lawrence

and Bu]len. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Jerram can hardly be serious when he suggests that the £15,000,000 annually spent in education might be devoted to a national army, "training the body......

Miscellanzoim—sweet-briar Sprays. By Harry Lowerison. (f....

is a book of pleasant essays as sundry rural subjects, from churches onwards. The writer makes a pilgrimage to Carlyle's home at Ecelefechan, wanders about Epping Forest, about......

Alaska And The Klondike. By Angelo Heilprin. (c. A. Pearson.

7s. 6d.)—Mr. Heilprin journeyed to' Dawson City and back from Skagway, a place which will not be found even in recent maps, but which may be described as being in the narrow......

The Empire And Its Heroes. By C. H. Simpkinson, M.a.,

Balliol College, Oxford. (Wake and Dean. 2s. 6d.)—This is one of those delightful little books which, being written for children, are full of invaluable light and reminder for......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading ice notice tuck Boots of the leech as have not been swerved for review in other forms.] Letters of Henry Hughes Dobinson. (Seeley and Co. 33. ad.)— Early in......

The Story Of The Religious Tract Society. By Samuel G.

Green, D.D. (R.T.S. ls. 6d.)—This volume commemorates yet another centenary. The Religious Tract Society was founded by the Rev. G. Burder of Coventry in 1799. Among his early......

Burdett's Hospitals And Charities. By Sir Henry Burdett....

Press. 5s.)—The author, who promises that future editions shall appear early in the year, has something interesting to tell us about hospital finance, as affected by the special......