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Prom Epicurus To Christ. By William De Witt Hyde. (mac-

millan and Co. Os. 6d. net.)—This study in the " principles of personality" by the President of Bowdoin College is one of those extremely clever and almost painfully......

The Humours Of Scottish Life. By The Very Rev. John

Gillespie, LL.D. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 3s. 641.)—Of the rather too numerous books which have followed in the wake of the cele- brated " Reminiscences" of Dean Ramsay, and some......

Edinburgh. Painted By John Fulleylove And Described By...

(A. and C. Black. 7s. 6d.)—A number of excellent books dealing with that Edinburgh which seems to have an equal charm alike for inhabitants and for visitors have appeared during......

1903-4 By The Author, Who Is A Minister Of The

United Free Church of Scotland ; and considering that the late Dr. Duff was a missionary of the Church of the Disruption, is appropriately enough "a study of our Lord's......

Democracy And Reaction. By L. T. Hobhouse. (t. Fisher Unwin.

5s.)—Mr. Hobhouse belongs to the school of advanced Liberalism in the present day, and he is firmly convinced of the baleful influence of the " Imperial idea " in bringing about......

The Cabinet And War. By Major W. Evans-gordon, M.p. (a.•

Constable and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Major Evans-Gordon deals in this book with a now familiar subject, and analyses what is now also the tolerably familiar evidence as to the......