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Democracy And Empire: With Studies Of Their...

Moral Foundations. By Franklin Henry Giddings, Professor in Columbia University. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d.) —Mr. Giddings states in his preface that the collection of essays......

The Quarterly Review.

"The Conditions of Great Poetry" strikes us as the most remarkable article in an interesting number of the Quarterly R4 VieW. The writer endeavours to trace the causes of the......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Famines in India. By Romesh C. Dutt. (Began Paul, Trench, and Co. 7s.......

Sports For Girls. Edited By Howard Spicer. (andrew Mel-...

is. net.)—The " sports" are eight in number, and may be enumerated : "Skating," "Hockey," " Swinimiag," " Golf," "Physical Training" (hardly a sport, though of importance that......

The Church Quarterly Review. July. (spottiswoode And Co....

Quarterly points - with legitimate satisfaction to the fact of its having completed its twenty- fifth year, the first number --having appeared in October, 1875. We desire to add......

Hieralconopolis, Part I. Plates Of Discoveries By J. E....

B.A. With Notes by W. M. F. P. (Bernard Quaritch. 20s.)— The discoveries given in this volume include some of the most ancient in Egypt. King Nar-mer, for instance, probably......

Arercasr Boma—natal And The Boers. By J. E. Rowell. (j.

M. Dent and Co. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Rowell tells us much about the subject of his book. He is enthusiastic about Natal ; he does justice, to the best of his ability, to the Boers. It......