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The Moods Of The English Bible The Same As In

Latin and Greek. By Gavin Hamilton. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh.)—We cannot profess to have exactly understood what Mr. Gavin Hamilton means when he speaks of the "imperial......

Curious Creatures In Zoology. With 130 Illustrations. By...

(Nimmo.)—Mr. Ashton has earned some reputation as a compiler, and in this beautifully got-up volume has achieved an interesting piece of work. Fabulous animals abound in......

The White Lady Of Rosemount. By John Coleman. (hutchinson...

Co.)—This "story of the modern stage" is certainly a well- told, interesting, and even exciting tale. The hero is a soldier, who, being forced by poverty to leave the Army, is......

Mr. Lloyd Jones's Life, Times, And Labours Of Robert Owen

is being republished (Labour Association, Norfolk Street). The author's son, Mr. W. Cairnes Jones, has prefixed a short— indeed, far too short—notice of his father. There are......

Waifs And Strays Of Celtic Tradition. By Lord Archibald...

(David Nutt.)—This volume contains the first instal- ment of a work which is, we suppose, to be somewhat prolonged, for it is entitled "Argyllshire Series." It contains some......

Mr. Tuke Reprints, In The Condition Of Donegal (ridgway),...

letters originally published in the Times in the May and June of 1889. He advocates with practical suggestions the relief, by migration, promotion of light railways, fisheries,......

French Life In Letters. By Mrs. Molesworth. (macmillan...

is an admirable little book, not to be confounded with the mass of ordinary reading-books. Ten sprightly letters, relating experiences of travel, of arrival, of looking for......

So Much Has Been Written About Henrik Ibsen's Play Of

A Doll's House, that it is needless to do more than mention that Mr. William Archer has published his version, as it was produced at the Novelty Theatre, making no alterations......

A History Of England. By E. T. Webb, B.a. (a

11 ma n and Son.)—We can recommend this book for schools. It is very com- prehensive, extending from the Stone Age to the Jubilee ; but so far as it can be sampled, it appears,......

The Lord Of Humanity. By Frederic James Gant....

is a thoughtful book on the relation of Christ to the human race, written by one who looks back to the teaching of F. D. Maurice as that which first made him see light in these......

Mr. Moorsom Has Here Compiled A Very Interesting Book, One

which all who care about hymnology should possess. He has discarded the alphabetical arrangement, and adopted one that is really scientific and instructive, the chronological.......

Heart Stories. By Theodore Bartlett. (g. P. Putnam's...

volume is a memorial of a young man of considerable ability, who died just when a literary career seemed to be opening before him. " Lydd's," the first and most important of the......

Belonging To A Series Called "the Stott Library" Are Two

very elegant little volumes, truly fitted to the capacity of the shallowest pocket, well printed and on good paper, Essays of Ella (D. Stott). The two must weigh together some-......