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The Antiquity Of Proverbs. By Dwight Edwards Marvin....

6d.) The Antiquity of Proverbs. By Dwight Edwards Marvin. (Putnam. 12s. 6d.) Mr. Marvin has studied the proverbs of every language deeply, and in this book he takes fifty common......

The Scottish Historical Review. (glasgow : Mac- Lehose,...

net.) The Jacobite plot to seize Edinburgh Castle in 1715, on the eve of the rising under Mar, is related in highly interesting detail by Major K. A. Moody-Stuart, who has made......

A Humanistic Revival Through Literature. By George H....

Stevenson and Orr, Ltd., Belfast. 2s. net.) The author of this excellent little book begins by discussing the recent developments in religion and science. As a result of the......

Criticism And Letters.

Talks and Traits. By H. C. Minehin. (Dent. 6s.) Mr. Minchin browses in those pleasant pastures that lie around the dark tower of literary criticism ; he gossips in the......