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Charles Stamford : Memories And Letters. Edited By His Wife.

(Hodder and Stoughton.)—In this volume we have the memorials of a very worthy man, who for a number of years was minister in Denmark Place Baptist Chapel, Camberwell, who is......

Glimpses Into Nature's Secrets. By E. A. Martin. (elliot...

—This is a small and thoroughly readable book about Nature and her secrets. The writer takes a variety of rambles over hill and dale and along the sea-shore, and chats......

Blindfold. By Florence Marryat. 3 Vols. (f. V. White And

Co.)—There is little or nothing to be said about Blindfold that we have not said about other works from the same pen. The interior of the Australian home of the brothers Dorrian......

Acrobats And Mountebanks. By H. Le Roux And J. Gamier.

Translated from the French by A. P. Morton. (Chapman and Hall.)—The title-page adds, " with 233 illustrations," a matter so important in relation to the book that we call......

The Makers Of Modern English. By W. I. Dawson. (hodder

and Stoughton.)—This is a misleading title. We expect a critical essay on the changes and development through which the English language has passed in the hands of the great......

Joints In Our Social Armour. By James Runciman. (hodder And

Stoughton.)—Mr. Runciman expresses himself with a vigour which leaves nothing to be desired. He leaves no doubt as to what he thinks,—and he thinks, anyhow, on the right side,......

The Land Of The Viking, And The Empire Of The

Tsar. By E. Fraser Blackstock. (Putnam's Sons, New York.)—This is rather a matter-of-fact American book of travel in familiar regions,—and that although among the dramatis......