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, The Champagne Standard. By Mrs. John Lane. (john Lane.

6s.)—This is the title of the first of seventeen essays in which Mrs. John Lane describes, satirises, and, perhaps it should be added, counsels what we may 'call the "upper......

On Professional Education. By T. Clifford Allbutt, M.d....

Co. 2s. net.)—The young Englishman, says Dr. Allbutt, "if he is to be equal to the conflict of modern life, must . be able to reaoon both on man and nature, to measure his own......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for roviow in other forms.] Any one who wishes to acquaint himself with the personnel of the new......

Vikings Of The Pacific. By A. C. Laut. (macmillan And

Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—These "adventures of explorers who came from the West eastward" make, we need hardly say, a most interesting book. The first—Mr. Lent discards, for good......

Crematoria In Great Britain And Abroad. By Albert C....

(St. Bride's Press. 58. net.)—Mr. Freeman makes a plea for the practice of cremation, and urges various reasons, more or less cogent, in its favour. The ancient practice had its......

Murray's History Of England. By M. A. Tucker. (john Murray

3s.)—In writing this "Outline History for Middle Forms" Miss Tucker has had to compress into the space of some four hundred pages the history of nearly two thousand years. And......

Some Theological Works.

Theological Lectures. Edited by A. S. Peake, M.A. (Sherratt and Hughes. 10s. 6d.)—This volume contains the inaugural lectures delivered by the professors and lecturers in the......