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Well-advised People Who Mean To Take Their Holiday At Home

may find The Road to the North, by Frank J. Nash (51 Vincent Square, 2s. 6d. net), useful. The traveller is supposed to make his first "halt by the wayside" at York, and to......

We Have Received Lean's Royal Navy List (witherby And Co,

7a. 6d.), with its usual quota of information about the personnel of the Navy, and a stock, which we see the editor does his best to increase, of facts about the services of......

The Traveller And The Student Are Greatly Indebted To...

T. and T. Clark, of Edinburgh, for the publication of a quite admirable Topographical and Physical Map of Palestine, compiled under the direction of J. G. Bartholomew, and......

A History Of Part Of West Somerset. By Charles E.

H. Chadwick Healey, K.C. (H. Sotberan and Co. £2 2s. net.)—Mr. Healey devotes this volume, containing between five and six hundred octavo pages of the largest size, to a small......

The Edwards In Scotland. By Joseph Bain. (d. Douglas,...

58. net.) — This volume contains six lectures delivered on the Rhind Foundation. The first is introductorY , and gives, among other things, an interesting account of the......

The Living Races Of Mankind. By H. N. Hutchinson, J.

W. Gregory, and R. Lydekker. Vol. II. (Hutchinson and Co. 7a. 6d. net.)—Chaps. 13.17 (numbered successively from Vol. I.) describe the negro races of Southern, Western, and......

The Royal Tombs Of The First Dynasty. By W. M.

Flinders Petrie. (Egypt Exploration Fund. 25'.)—Professor Flinders Petrie continues and completes in this Memoir (XXI.) his account of the work on the Royal Tombs of Abydos. A......

The French Stonehenge. By T. Cato Worsfold. (bemrose And...

5s.)-1 r. Worsfold finds what he describes by the title of his book in the great stone circles and avenues that are to be found in the region of Cameo and Locmariaquer is......

King Alfred's Jewel. — Mr. Elliot Stock Has Sent Us A Re-

production of the well-known Alfred Jewel. We need not apologise for mentioning it in these columns. The jewel was found, in 1693, not far from Athelney. That it is genuine, no......