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The Queen's Commission By Captain G. J. Younghusband....

Younghusband proposes to tell his readers how to prepare for, to obtain, and finally use the com- mission. Naturally the first question which engages his attention is the choice......

Fathers Of The English Church. By Frances Phillips....

(Bemrose and Sons.)—This second series of " Short Sketches for Young Readers " contains the lives of St. Richard of Chichester, William of Wykeham, Matthew Parker, and Laud.......

Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein And Co. Have Published The...

a series of tabular sheets which promises to be of some service to students of history. The idea of the author—Miss A. M. Christie—is to present at one view the names of the......

Notes On Men, Women, And Books. By Lady Wilde. (ward

and Downey.)—These " Notes" are reviews, mainly of authors of eminence and their works, contributed by Lady Wilde to divers periodicals, and now presented to the reading public......

Mr. Percy M. Stone Is Engaged On A Work Of

very considerable interest, The Architectural Antiquities of the Isle of Wight from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries. (The Author, 16 Great Marl- borough Street.) We have......

The World Grown Young, By William Herbert (w. H. Allen

and Co.), is an account of how an imaginary Mr. Philip Adams, "millionaire and philanthropist," sought to reform the world during the years 1894-1914. Mr. Herbert puts into the......

The Blind Apostle, And A Heroine Of Charity. By Kathleen

O'Meara. (Burns and Oates.)—In this new volume of "The Bells of the Sanctuary," there are presented two biographies of human as well as of religious interest. Gaston do &gar,......