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The Corsairs Of France. By C. B. Norman. (sampson Low

and Co.)—Mr. Norman, who was in the Army, not the Navy, has written this book with the patriotic object of inciting the country to a still vaster outlay on the Navy, by showing......

We Have Received The Second Part Of The Congregational...

Hymn-Book. Edited by George S. Barrett.—This part contains "Litanies and Chants." 'Apart from its musical value, it is interesting to see the development of ritual in the......

Factors In Life. By H. G. Seeley, F.r.s. (s.p.c.k.)—this...

little book consists of three lectures which Professor H. G. Seeley delivered before the Working-Men's Institute of Sevenoaks in 1884, on health, food, and education. But why......

Brothers Were All Eton Fellows. The Capital Letter Must Not

be sup- posed to mean that they were "Fellows of the College." They were simply Eton boys ; but this is itself so dignified a position, that a capital is required to do it......

Around The World On A Bicycle. By Thomas Stevens. (sampson

Low and Co.)—A more exact name for this book would be " Half- Round the World with a Bicycle," as the author only went from San Francisco to Teheran, and even when be was not on......

Euthanasia. By William Munk, M.d. (longmans.)—the Subject...

must not be confounded with that of an article published (in the Fortnightly Review, if we remember right) some years ago, in which the arguments for hastening a manifestly......

The History Of Painting. From The German Of The Late

Dr. Alfred Woltmann and Dr. Karl Woermann. Vol. IL "The Painting of the Renascence." Translated by Clara Bell. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—We can do little more than record......