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All The World's Fighting Ships. By F. T. Jane. Illustrated.

(Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—This cosmopolitan guide to warships is certainly a most compact and concentrated collection of essential figures relating to the......

Theology. — Oxford Conferences, Hilary Term, 1900. By...

(Began Paul, Trench, and Co. ls. 6d. net.) —" Conferences," it must be understood, is used in the technical sense of " Lectures," the speaker contributing the doctrine and the......

Sketches Of Lowly Life In A Great City. By M.

A. Woolf. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Joseph Henius in his introduction says that the pictures in this book have been chiefly collected from Life and Judge. The sketches......

We Have Received Part Xiii. Of A Picturesque History Of

York- shire, by J. S. Fletcher (J. M. Dent and Co., Is. net). It contains " The Lower Derwent," in four chapters (48-51), and the opening part of " The Upper Derwent," as......

European Travel For Women.

European Travel for Women. By Mary Cadwalader Jones. (Macmillan and Co. 4s. 6d.)—Reading this book makes one long to set out on a journey. It is not a guide-book in the ordinary......

Proceedings Of The Royal Colonial Imtilute. Edited By The...

Vol. XXXI., 1899-1900. (The Institute, Northumber- land Avenue.)—There are always a number of interesting 1.apers in these volumes, most of thorn being of a kind which the......

Over The Alps On A Bicycle. By Elizabeth Robins Pennell.

Illustrated by Joseph Pennell. (T. Fisher Unwin. ls.)—Mrs. Pennell's achievement of crossing nine Alpine passes on a bicycle . does not seem altogether an enviable one. She says......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not been reserved for review in other forms.] Golden Deeds of the War. By Alfred Thomas Story. (G. Newnes. 6s.)—Mr.......