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The King's Story - Book. Edited, With Introduction, By...

(A. Constable and Co.)—It is scarcely correct for Mr. Gomme to say that while fairy-tales have been used to exhaustion to provide reading for the young, "English history and......

Palestine That He Might Study The Actual Places Of The

story and paint them. His work consists of drawings and notes illustrative of the Gospels. The whole of the drawings were exhibited, and at the time they were considered in the......

With The Greeks In Thessaly. By W. Kinnaird Rose. (methuen

and Co.)—Mr. Rose was Renter's war correspondent in the Greek War, and he has collected in this volume the despatches which he sent from the field of battle or flight. They are......

Some Western Folk. By Mabel Quiller Conch. (horace...

may be an accidental one, but the volume of stories and sketches by Mabel Quiller Couch collected under the title, Some Western Folk, bears a curious resemblance en form and......

The Life - Story Of A Village Pastor (robert Pool)....

his Son, the Rev. J. J. Pool, B.D. (J. Clarke and Co.)—Mr. R. Pool, who is now enjoying a well-earned leisure, has been a specimen of a somewhat uncommon class, the rural......

The Pioneers Of The Kiondyke. Narrated By M. H. E.

Hayne, and recorded by H. West Taylor. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—Mr. Hayne is a non-commissioned officer in the Mounted Police ; Mr. Taylor is a journalist who has worked......

Harvard Stories: Sketches Of The Undergraduate. By...

(G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—One age overlaps another in the history of mankind ; the Stone Age still lasts in one country, while the Iron has well begun in another. So, to judge from......

B. L Barnato : A Memoir. By Harry Raymond. (isbister

and Co.)—A. Life of the financial celebrity popularly known as " Barney Barnato" was an inevitable contribution to the history of Great Britain in the nineteenth century. We......