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The Press Album. Edited By Thomas Catling. (john Murray. 2s.

6d. not.)—This volume is published "in aid of the Journalists' Orphan Fund." The fund has been in existence for seventeen years. There is no orphanage : as far as pessible the......

Magna Charta. (henry J. Glaisher. 6d. Net.)—this Is A...

which everybody talks about, but which few people have read, except in the baldest abstract. Hero it is, reprinted from a translation made some two centuries ago. Not a little......

An Into)hpieat Montan. By Frank Danby. (w. Heinemittin....

no particular reason why "Frank Danby " Should have given her new book this title, because, although the hero., does not . end his career at Eton hi a blaze of glory, the......

The Status Of Woman. By A. Beatrice Wallis Chapman And

Mary Wallis Chapman. (G. Routledge and Sons. 2s. Od.)—Here we have in the shape of annals, arranged chronologically, the laws for the last eight centuries and a half by which......

The Children's Charter : Explained For Social Workers. By M.

Inglis. (T. Nelson and Sons. 6d. net.)—The Children Act, 1908, which came into force on the first day of April, is here explained clause by clause. It is interesting to see how......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under !hie heading we naiad suck Books of 1ii weak ao has. not bean rsservod for VIVi/10 in athar forme.] The Old Testantent in Greek. Edited by Alan England Brooke, B.D., and......

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New Editions.—dictionary Of National Biography. Edited By...

XIV. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 15s. net.)—This volume includes XL.-XLII. of the original edition, and takes in from " Myllar " to "Owen." It is, perhaps, especially rich in famous......

Readabln Novell—the Yellow God, By H. Rider Haggard....

Co. 13s.)—" An Idol of Africa" is the sub-title, and, as the reader may suppose, it is a story of devil-worship and the like horrors set forth as Mr. Rider Haggard knows......

Foreign Missions: What They Have Done And How They May

be Extended. By Alfred Beer. (Robert Culley. 2s, ad. net.)— There is information to he derived from this volume ; and no one certainly feels any doubt about the zeal of the......

The Book Of Trade Secrets. By An Expert. (t. Haslam

and Co. is. net.)—The title has an attractive sound. We should learn here how to do things which we commonly get done for us, at more or less cost, by others. "Old Books and......