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Insect Life : A Short Account Of The Classification And

Habits of Insects. By Fred W. Theobald, M.A., F.E.S. With numerous illustrations. (Methuen and Co.)—The little book before us is intended, as the author tells us in his preface,......

An Introduction To The Study Of Seaweeds. By George Murray

(Macmillan and Co.)—For a severely technical text-book this volume is beautifully illustrated with cute and a few coloured plates. It is one of the excellent series of "Manuals......

A Comedy Of Honour. By Nora Vynne. (ward, Lock, And

Co.) —The heroine in A Comedy of Honour steals her friend Nellie's lover—one Sarney—unconsciously, and thereupon suffers agonies of remorse, nor does she hesitate to tell her......

The People Of The Moon. By Tremlett Carter. Illustrations By

D'Aguilcourt. (Electrician Publishing Company.) — Mr. Carter, reasoning on the bold hypothesis that there may be a people living in the interior of the moon, and also on that......

The Story Of An Old Oak - Tree Told By Himself. By

C. Thorpe Fancourt. (Elliot Stock.)—The title of this little book led us to expect a book of popular natural history ; but it is hardly this. It is a story of a little boy sent......

A Knight Of The Air. By Henry Coxwell. (digby, Long,

and Co.)—We suppose that the idea of a balloon suggests something exciting, and we were prepared for thrilling adventures, and, we must admit, were disappointed. The plot is......

Columbian And Canadian Sketches. By Rudyard Home. (gill,...

of American life have more freshness and originality than we generally associate with literature of this kind. They will not put a new complexion on the aspects of the social......

Silent Gods And Sun - Steeped Lands. By R. W. Frazer. (t.

Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. Frazer has embodied in some rather grandiloquent writing a few traditions and tales of the religions of Southern India. He has fully entered into the......

This Age Of Ours. By Charles Hermann Leibbrand, Ph.d....

Low, Marston, and Co.) —The author of this curious book has evidently got through a great deal of reading, and not a little thinking. But it is also evident that he has not......

The Leadin' Road To Donegal. By "mac." (digby, Long, And

Co.)—These are delightful examples of the Donegal peasant's unconscious humour. The wit and the brogue are admirably rendered, and if there is a slight lack of skill in putting......

The Were Wolf. By Clemence Housman. (john Lane.)—the Were...

is reprinted from Atalanta, and is a picturesque and striking attempt to give reality and colour to the gruesome tradi- tion of the "were wolf." The contrasted characters of the......

Given To The World, Anything More Objectionable Than This...

Hannah Stubbs is a simple country girl, naturally a powerful " medium," and becomes, in the course of some seances, " obsessed "—that seems to be the right technical word—by the......