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Art In Needlework.

Art in Needlework. By Lewis F. Day and Mary Buckle. (B. T. BatsforcL 5s.)—In this third and enlarged edition the authors have given us a really useful book on embroidery. The......

Jacobite Loyalty.

The Spirit of Jacobite Loyalty : an Essay towards the Better Understanding of the '45. By G. Blaikie Murdoch. (William Brown, Edinburgh. 2s. 6d.)—It is not a little curious at......

Pillow Lace.

Pillow Lace. By Elizabeth Miucoff, Ph.D., and Margaret S. Marriage, MA. Illustrations by Ernest Marriage. (John Murray. 15s.)—This book, which the authors call "a practical......

Proverb Lore.

Proverb Lore. By F. Edward Hulme, F.S.A. Cheaper Edition. (Elliot Stock. 5s.)—We are glad to see a new and cheaper edition of this excellent book, in which the wisdom of the......

Life In The Homeric Age.

Life in the Homeric Age. By Thomas Day Seymour. (Macmillan and Co. 17s.)—This careful study of the Homeric poems by a Professor at Yale is a very suggestive reminder that even......

The Scot Of The Eighteenth Century.

The Scot of the Eighteenth Century : his Religion and his Life. By John Watson, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—The late "Ian Maclaren "could always write in a genial and......