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Essays In Puritanism. By Andrew Macphail. (t. Fisher...

Macphail is of an iconoclastic temper ; but it is not against idols that his hand is raised. Really groat things and men he reverences. His book has many attractions ; one of......

The Dickensian, Edited By B. W. Matz (chapman And Hall,

Ss.), is "a magazine for Dickens lovers," and is published by the Dickens Fellowship. It contains things new and old about Dickens and his writings. Sir W. H. Bailey writes on......

Shrines Of British Saints. By J. Charles Wall. (methuen And

Co. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Wall is doubtless right in declining to subject to a critical test the legendary matter which he has collected, along with other things, in this volume ; in......

Letters From India During The Mutiny And Waziri...

Colonel John Chalmers. (T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh.)— John Chalmers was an engineer in the service of the Honourable East India Company when the Mutiny broke out, became a......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such nooks of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] A Sketch of the Licensing Act of 1904. By Sir H. S. Cunningham. A......

C Urrent Literat Ure.

. FACTS AND IDEAS. in the columns of various local weekly newspapers, where, as we are not surprised to learn, they have " found favour with a large circle of readers." We wish......

Radium Explained. By Dr. W. Hampson. (t. C. And E.

C. Jack. ls. net.)—We cannot attempt to put into the small space available any epitome of Dr. Hampson's highly concentrated account of radium. What this marvellous substance......