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Books.

MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S LETTERS ON THE WAR.* Mn. W INSToN Onunenum's letters from the front were well worth reprinting, for they are a good deal more than mere battle pictures.......

Mr. Herbert Spencer And His Work.*

MR. MACPHERSON is a vigorous writer of no little original power, and if we cannot take the same exalted . view of Mr. Spencer's philosophy as a whole which he takes, at least We......

Art.

THE ACADEMY.-111. THE sculpture at the Academy this year is, with one exception, less interesting than usual. The exception is the equestrian statue with its pedestal and......