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A Club Of One : Passages From The Note-book Of

a Man who might have been Sociable. With Marginal Summary by the Editor. (Honghton, Boston, U.S.A.)—The editor of these Passages adopts the commonplace artifice of pretending......

Dr. Bain Once More.*

THERE is something positively pathetic in the persistency with which, every five years or so, Dr. Bain invites the public into his neat little laboratory, to witness his......

London. By W. J. Loftie. "historic Towns." (longmans,...

Co.)—It is a pity that what should be the leading volume of this series, the capital city itself, should have been banded over to a writer who is not a historian, bat a......

The Sweet O' The Year. By H. T. Wilmota Eaten,

M.A. (Skeffington.) —This is a story of the common kind, told with something more than an average amount of ability. The characters will be familiar to readers of fiction,—the......

On The Study Of Literature. The Annual Address To The

Students of the London Society for the Extension of University Teaching. By John Morley. (Macmillan and Co.)—It may be remembered that the delivery of this address at the......

Current Literature.

The Autobiography of an Independent Minister. (Williams and Norgate.)—In noticing this book about five years ago, we observed that although the writer had a practical experience......

How To Write The History Of A Parish. By Charles

Cox, LLD.. (Bemrose and Sons.)—This is an admirable little vadasnecum, not merely for the would-be historian of a parish, bat for any one engaged in historical or antiquarian......