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Official Year - Book Of Scientific And Learned Societies....

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With Shelley In Italy. By Anna Benneson Mcmahan. (t. Fisher

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Theodore Roosevelt, The Boy And The Man. By James Morgan.

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The Writers' And Artists' Year - Book. (a And C. Black. Is.

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The Red Cap. By Edward Sydney Tylee. (nelson And Sons.

5s.)—Mr. Tylee gives us here a very vigorous picture of the Revolution in France. Philip Aston, a lad of fourteen, of partly French descent, comes to Havre, on his way to Paris,......

In The Track Of Stevenson. By J. A. Hammerton. (j.

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A Second Edition Of The Architecture Of Greece And Rpme,

by William J. Anderson and R. Phene Spiers (B. T. Batsford, 18s. net), has appeared "revised and enlarged" by R. Phone Spiers. Additions have been made to the representations of......

Papers Of The British School At Rome, Vol. Iv. (macmillan

and Co. 31s. 6d. net.)—This fourth instalment of the work of the school may be said to indicate by its contents the range of its subjects. Mr. T. E. Peet's paper on "The Early......

Almanach Hachette. (hachette, Et Cie. 3 Francs.)—our...

aware that a French almanac differs considerably from an English. Many things are to be found in Hachette that are not to be found, say, in " Whitaker "; others that we should......