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The Queen's Progress, And Other Elizabethan Sketches. By...

Schelling. (T. Werner Laurie. 10s. net.)—Mr. Schelling has put together some interesting studies and sketches from the later Tudor period. Some of the matter will be familiar to......

Emerson. By Elizabeth Luther Cary. (g. P. Putnam's Sons 15s.

net.)—This is a handsome volume written by one who, it is evi- dent, has studied the Emersonian philosophy to good purpose. On that portion of the book we cannot dwell. We may......

A Dictionary Of Battles, By T. B. Harbottle (swan...

and Co., 7s. 6d.), contains the record, with place, names of com- manders, numbers, and date, of some fifteen or sixteen hundred battles, from the earliest times down to the......

The Cathedrals Of Southern France. By Francis Miltoun....

Laurie. 6s. net.)—This is a carefully prepared book which must have cost much labour, probably very agreeable labour, in the collecting of necessary materials. We willingly......

Burke's Peerage, Bar Onetage, And Knightage. Edited By...

Burke. (Harrison and Sons. 42s.)—The preface to this, the sixty- seventh edition, is of more than usual interest. The editor points out that for the year just past no creation......

Records Of The Stirlingshire Militia, Now The Third...

and Sutherland Highlanders. By A. H. Middleton, Colonel. (Eneas Mackay. 10s. 6d.)—This record will be interesting to many people. The Third Battalion represents the......

Life And Energy. By Walter Hibbert. (longmans And Co 2s.

6d. net.)—The definition of life at which Mr. Hibbert arrives is this : "Life is not energy, but an unceasing non-factorial directive control of it and its transformations." The......

The Unemployed Problem. By J. Keir Hardie, M.p. (10 Red

Lion Court, E.C. ld.)—Mr. Keir Hardie's figures baffie us. He takes the Board of Trade Returns, and deduces from them, on "a very moderate estimate," a total of '750,000......

The Isle That Is Called Patmos. By William Edgar Geil.

(Marshall Brothers. 6s.)—Mr. Geil is, as many of our readers are aware, a man who thinks what he likes and says what he thinks. He has a good deal to tell us about modern......