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Tales. —the Fail Of A Star. By Sir W. Magnay, Bart.

(Macmillan and Co.)—The " Star " is a man who has greatly distinguished himself in academical and Parliamentary life. It is of his successes in the latter region that we are......

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......

Old English Glasses. By Albert Hartshorne. '(edward...

quarto deals minutely with the history not only of glass made in England, but also with that which was imported from Venice and Holland. Besides an introduction dealing with......

Portrait Miniatures. By George C. Williamson. (bell And...

volume, belonging as it does to "Connoisseur Series," is intended chiefly as a collector's guide ; but the number of beautiful and interesting miniatures reproduced make it a......

Little Ivan's Hero. By Helen Milman (mrs. Caldwell...

Nister.)—The most characteristic thing in this story is the reality with which in the child's belief the continued presence of the dead with those who are left behind is......

A Lady Of Wales. By The Rev. Vincent J. Leatherdale.

(Horace Cox.)—This "Story of the Siege of Chester" belongs, as may be supposed, to the latter days of the great struggle between King and Parliament. Mr. Leatherdale seems to......

New Enrrrows Awn Reprints.—the History Of The Indian...

by Colonel Malleson, C.S.I. 6 vols. (Longmans and Co.)—Vols. I. and II. are from the pen of Sir John Kaye, III., IV., and V. are written by Colonel Malleson, while the sixth......