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Nonconformity In Herts. By William Urwick, M.a. (hazel!,...

Viney.)—Mr. Urwick ingeniously begins his history of Hertfordshire Nonconformity with St. Alban (not feeling, however, quite certain that there was such a person), whom he......

Letters Front The Highlands. Reprinted From The Times....

and Sons.)—These letters furnish materials for the question that is now coming into public notice, the condition of the High- land population. Some of the facts and figures are......

Germs: Dust And Disease. By Andrew Smart, M.d. (macniven And

Wallace, Edinburgh).—These two lectures are well described as "two chapters in our life history." The first is a popular exposition of the "germ theory" of zymotio disease (Dr.......

Torwood's Trust. By Evelyn Everett-green. 3 Vols....

is a new variation, and not, we think, a very happy one, on the "Claimant Plot." Philip Debenham and Torrington Torwood travel over the world for ten years, Torwood furnishing......

The Second Volume Of Thirty Thousand Thoughts, Edited By The

Rev. Canon H. D. M. Spence, Rev. Joseph S. Exell, and Rev. Charles Neil (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.), is before us. Five more sections, making ten in all, have been added, and......

.4 History Of Art In Chaldcea And Assyria. From The

French of Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez. 2 vols. Translated and edited by Walter Armstrong, B.A. (Chapman and Hall.)—These volumes are a sequel to the work on Egyptian art......

The March Of Loyalty. By Letitia M'clintock. 3 Vols....

Brothers.).—There is, of course, something in these volumes about Irish politics, but happily there is not very much. The end of this part of the story may be briefly described......