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The Political Science Quarterly Is A Very Useful...

its editors—the University Faculty of Political Science in Columbia—should beware lest they make it dull to a spiritless ex- tent by giving too many continued articles like......

The Indian Mutirey Of 1857. By Colonel G. B. Malleson.

Seeley and Co.) — Although the Indian Mutiny has been abundantly written upon, no apology is needed for a volume giving in convenient compass and in a readable style the history......

Laundry Work. By Mrs. Lord. (cassell And Co.)—it Is Practi-

cally impossible to conceive of a neater, cheaper, compacter, better-printed, or in every way handier little manual of the operation known as "the weekly wash," than this. It is......

The Philosophy Of Piction In Literature : An Essay. By

Daniel Greenleaf Thompson. (Longssians, Green, and Co., London and New York.)—This is the kind of book which is just so fairly well- written as to make a reviewer wonder why the......

Within Sight Of The Snow, And A Surrey Idyll. By

Lily Watson. (Religious Tract Society.)—Of these two bright, cheerful stories, the first will probably be preferred by the girl-readers for whom they are obviously intended,......

A Journalist's Jottings. By W. Beatty-kingston. 2 Vols....

Hall.)—Mr. Beatty-Kingston, who decorates his title-page with several foreign orders of merit, has collected in these volumes a number of papers contributed to the Daily Tele-......