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Lectures On Sanitary Law. By A. Wynter Blyth. (macmillan And

Co.)—These twelve lectures, delivered at the College of State Medicine, are of course, too technical to be noticed at length in these columns. They deal with such subjects as "......

In The Mythological Part Of The Poetical Edda, And In

the prose Edda, and has arranged them in a continuous narrative, in many places working in and developing the fragmentary allusions to imperfectly explained myths in the VOluspa......

The Sherborne Register, 1823 - 1891. Compiled And...

Horne. Clowes and Sons.)—" Since 1872," writes Mr. Hume in his preface, " a school register has been carefully kept." And the school began to be not later, we may say, than 772!......

Piccadilly Bookmen. By Arthur L. Humphreys. (hatchard).-...

of the House of Hatchard " have plenty of interest. Hatchard began business in 1797 with five pounds, and died fifty-two years afterwards worth nearly a hundred thousand pounds.......

Lloyd's : Yesterday And To - Day. By Henry M. Grey. (john

Haddon and Co.)—Sometime in the latter half of the seventeenth century, a Mr. Edward Lloyd had a coffee-house in Tower Street, frequented by seafaring men. We find......

The Humour Of Holland. Translated, With An Introduction,...

Werner. (Walter Scott.)—Mr. Werner's introduction is, beyond all doubt, well worth reading. He tells us about writers of whom we are glad to know something. There are two......

The Rival Powers In Central Asia. Translated From The German

of Josef Popowski by Arthur Baring Brabant, and edited by Charles E. D. Black. (Archibald Constable and Co.)—The author reviews the present situation, as regards Russia and......