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In The Service Of Rachel, Lady Russell. By Emma Marshall..

(Seeley and Co.)—This is another of those admirable historical romances in which Mrs. Marshall makes the past speak to the present through its nobler characters. It is more......

Current Literature.

GIFT-BOOKS. In the Far Country. By Albert E. Hooper. (James Clarke and Co.)—We confess to liking the real as distinguished from the " fairyland " portion of this book, and we......

Arbitrary Government Under The Tudors.*

NOTHING can show the extraordinary difference between the constitutional Government of to-day, and the arbitrary or personal Government of the Tudor period, better than the new......

Fifty-two Other Stories For Boys. Edited By Alfred H. Miles.

(Hutchinson and Co.) Fifty. two other Stories for Girls. (Same editor and publisher.)—We are glad to see these excellent suc, cessors to books that deserved, and seem to have......