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Swiss Travel And Swiss Guide - Books. By W. A. B. Coolidge.

(Longmans.)—Those who are meditating travel among the Swiss Alps will do well to make themselves acquainted with this volume. It may be best described in the author's own words......

In "military Handbooks," Edited By Colonel G. B....

Paul, Trench, and Co.), we have Field Works, from the pen of the editor. The subject comprises more than the inexpert reader would suppose. Chapters 7-12, for instance, are......

Richard Iv., Plantagenet. By J. Frederick Hodgetts....

is a rather audacious attempt on the part of Pro- fessor Hodgetts to defy history, or, at all events, what are generally regarded as its recognised facts. Not only does he to......

Good Form. By Mrs. Armstrong. (f. V. White.)—it Makes One

shudder to think that in these comparatively unconventional days it ihould still be necessary to write books of etiquette, to discourse on "Receiving Callers," "Dinner,"......

Burns Holograph Manuscripts. (d. Brown And Co.,...

difficult to see how any literary object of genuine im- portance can be served at this time of day by reproducing in print, verbatim et literatim, the holograph MSS. in the......

The Unrivalled Atlas. New And Enlarged Edition. (w. And A.

K. Johnston.)—A good atlas certainly, giving a quite remarkable amount of information for the very low price. The additions con- sist of two classical maps ("Orbis Veteribus......

Prince Boderisk. By J. Brinsley-richards. 3 Vols....

of an Heir-Apparent who is unpopular with his family and his future subjects, must indeed be an unpleasant one. Prince Roderick's struggles against intrigues are sufficiently......

Powner.—death's Disguises, And Other Sonnets. By Frank T....

Scott.)—If we had an Academy of poets, Mr. MasziSls ought certainly to rank among the "Associates." He has always something to say ; commonly this something is fresh and......

Schwartz. By D. Christie Murray. 2 Vols. (macmillan.)—...

short tales. The chief tale, "Schwartz "—the tale of a dog—is written with extraordinary skill and pathos, showing that Mr. Christie Murray can enter into the troubles of animal......

In The Series Of "manuals Of Catholic Philosophy" (burns And

Oates), we have Logic, by Richard F. Clarke, S.J.; and The First Principles of Knowledge, by J. Rickaby, S.J. To discuss these two volumes in detail would take us far out of our......