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Theology.—the Fathers For English Readers : Clement Of...

F. R. Montgomery Hitchcock, M.A. (S.P.C.K. 3a.)— Mr. Hitchcock very properly begins with a succinct account of Alexandria ; he discusses the philosophical speculations of Philo,......

0' 61aes'e Goad To Stabs And Portugal. Edited By John

Lomas. Eleventh Edition. (A. and C. Black. 15s.)—The eleventh edition of this favourite guide-book has been corrected and brought up to date by the personal travel and......

Cambridge And Other Sermons. By F. J. A. Hort. (macmillan

and Co. 6s.)—These sermons are all marked by the great earnest- ness that distinguished Dr. Hort as a preacher, and by the careful scholarship that has made his name famous......

In Modern Spain: Some Sketches And Impressions. By...

Barbe. Illustrated by A. J. Wall. (Elliot Stock. 3s.6d.)—It is almost a misnomer to call Ws pretty little volume In Modern Spain. Of the seven illustrations, one represents......

Through Armenia On Horseback. By Rev. Geo. Hepworth....

Co. 6s.)—An American clergyman, despatched by an American newspaper proprietor and the Sultan, of Turkey himself to inquire into the Armenian question, hardly offers a guarantee......

Ornament In European Silks. By Alan S. Cole. With 169

Illus- trations. (Debenhain and Freebody. 32s.)—Mr. Cole begins by giving a short account of the history of silk. It was unknown to the Greeks and early Romans, and "it is said......

Sacred Poems Of The Nineteenth Century. Edited By Kate A.

Wright. (Cornbridge, Birmingham. 7s. 6d. net.)—This volume be- longs to a series that well deserves its name of " Dainty." It is well printed on good paper, and is of a......

The Little Flowers Of St. Francis Of Assisi. With 8

Illustra- tions by Paul Woodroffe. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 610—The dainty " Temple Classics " edition of the " Fioretti," which ap- peared only last year, seems to leave......

The Tale Of Beowulf. Translated By William Morris And A.

J. Wyatt. (Longmans and Co. 6s.)—Tales of the Heroic Ages: Siegfried and Beowulf. By Zenaide A. Ragozin. (Putnam's Sons.) —It is interesting to compare these two books and to......

Sermons To Young Boy& By Rev. F. De W. Lushington.

(John Murray. 3s. 6d.)—This book of sermons is mure remarkable from its promise than for its actual performance. Almost every sermon contains some illuminating tam* or happy......