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Our Friends In The Hunting - Field. By Mrs. Edward...

V. White and Co.)—Mrs. Kennard gives us here fourteen sketches of more or less common types from the hunting-field. The " Melancholy Man " and the " Man who has Lost his Nerve "......

Addresses On Educational Subjects. By S. S. Laurie....

Cambridge.)—Mr. Laurie, in respect of his educational views, may be described as a Liberal-Conservative. It would, he thinks, be a "national misfortune" if the Humanistic cause......

All The Russias. By E. C. Phillips. (cassell And Co.)—a

good deal of information about Russia and Russian people and things is here given, in a series of conversations between certain Russian children, and in a narrative of their......

Skill Wins Favour. By Mrs. George Elliot Kent. (roper And

Drowley.)—This is a story constructed on the usual lines of an intended surprise. Paul Sudbury, a poor artist, wins the heart of the well-born Miss D'Avonmore, and, after a......

The London Charterhouse ; Its Monks And Its Martyrs. By

Dom Laurence Hendriks. (Kagan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The author has not much that is new to tell us about the Charterhouse martyrs, but he corrects, in not a few important......

The Rambler Papers. By Jeffery C. Jeffery. (w. H. Allen

and Co.)—If the reader should expect to find in this volume anything like the essays which are to be found in the famous Rambler of the last century, he will be disappointed.......