24 NOVEMBER 1906, page 23

In A Series Which Bears The Title Of "little Lives

of the Great" (A. L. Humphreys, 2s. net) we have a number of volumes, all from the pen of Mr. John Lord. We cannot claim to have read them all, but if they are up to the......

We Have Received From The S.p.c.k. Various Useful...

the Almanac and Diary order. There are the Churchman's Almanac in various forms for the desk, &c., and the pocket, interleaved for accounts (10d.), with calf back (2s.) ; The......

We Have Received Two Volumes Of " Routledge's Miniature...

Library" (G. Routledge and Sons, Is. not per vol.) These are A Dictionary of English Literature, by M. MeCroben, and The Chairman and Debater's Handbook, by D. M. Ransom. The......

College Histories : Peterhouse. By Thomas Alfred Walker....

Co. 5s.)—Peterhouse is, by common consent, the oldest of the Cambridge Colleges. Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely—successfully supported by the Pope against the King, let it be......

Garrick And His Circle. By Mrs. Clement Parsons. (methuen...

Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—" My aim has been," writes Mrs. Parsons in her preface, "to make each one of a series of vignettes illus- trate Garrick's character or career in contact with......

The First Folio Shakespeare. Edited By Charlotte Porter...

A. Clarke. With Introduction by J. Churton Collins, D.Litt. (George G. Harrap and Co. 13 vols. 42s. net.)—The principle -on which this edition is founded is adherence to the......

We Have Received A New Edition (the Fourth) Of The

First Age of Christianity and the Church, by J. J. I. Dollinger, D.D., Translated by Henry Nutcombe Oxenham (Gibbings and Co., 6s. net). The first edition of the book appeared......

• In "routledge's New Universal Library" (g. Routledge...

is. and 2s. per vol.), we have a number of new volumes, all of them valuable additions, and some such as we could hardly have expected. We may mention Earth and Man, by......

Adrift In New Zealand. By E. Way Elkington. (john Murray.

10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Elkington modestly mentions various uses to which his book cannot be put. Among them is that of being a "practical guide to New Zealand." Possibly not. He......