28 JANUARY 1899, page 38

The January Instalment Of The Oxford English Dictionary,...

Dr. James A. Murray (Clarendon Press, 5s.), takes in the words "Heel—Hod." These number very nearly four thousand, more than a quarter in excess of any previous dictionary. One......

Three Articles In The Edinburgh Review For This Quarter Deal

with America. One is on "Stonewall Jackson," that right- minded, wrong-headed soldier, a new Life of whom has lately been written ; one on "Sir George Trevelyan and the American......

Can We Disarm ? By Joseph Mccabe, Written In Collaboration

with Georges Darien. (W. Heinemann. 2s. 6d.)—The specially interesting part of this volume is the chapter headed "A Possible Solution." Papal policy, which never forgets the......

The Hampstead Annual. Edited By Ernest C. Bhp. (sidney The

Mayle.)—We notice among the contributors to this volume names of Canon Ainger, Dr Horton, C. E. Maurice, and H. W. Nevinson. It is welcome for its intrinsic merits, and also for......

The Current Quarterly Has Several Articles Of Interest,...

notable being "The Ethics of Religious Conformity." The main idea of this most able and ingenious paper—which we strongly recommend to all those who are interested in Christian......

The Sportsman's Year - Book. Edited By C. S, Colman And A,

H. Windsor. (Lawrence and Ballen. 2s. 6d.)—This volume is a new venture; it is to be "a Sportsman's Whitaker, in the shape of a collection of the rules of the chief English......