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The Cid Campeador. Translated From The Spanish Of Antonio De

Trueba y la Quintana. (Longmans, Green, and Co.)—The Cid Campeador, Ruy Diaz de Bivar, is, as the translator of this history says in his preface, the great popular hero of Spain......

Buckle And His Critics : A Study In Sociology. By

John Mac- kinnon Robertson. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—We seem to enter into a hopeless maze in attempting to criticise Mr. Mac- kinnon Robertson's criticism of Buckle's......

The Princess Aline. By Richard Harding Davis. (macmillan...

is a delightful addition to the publishers' series of " Pocket Novels." Morton Carlton, an American portrait-painter of considerable eminence, falls in love with the portrait of......

The Stolen Bacillus. By H. G. Wells. (methuen.)—readers...

Pail Mall Gazette and Budget will be glad to find that the amusing stories contributed by Mr. Wells to those two publica- tions have been collected and republished in the form......

Latin Grammar. By B. L. Gildersleeve And Gonzalez Lodge....

and Co.)—The size of this volume, as well as the quantity of matter which has been ably and judiciously com- pressed into it, will prevent it, we regret to be compelled to say,......

The Wonderful Visit. By H. G. Wells. (dent And Co.)—this

is likely to prove a lively disappointment to admirers of Mr. Wells's former story, "The Time Machine." One need hardly say that it is excellently well written, for that might......