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In The Series Of The "library Of Modern Classics" (john

Long, 2s. and 3s. net per vol.) we have _Adam Bede, by George Eliot, with a portrait of the author and sixteen illustrations by P. B. Hickling, certainly an excellent specimen......

Education And Industriai Success. By W. P. Groser....

and Viney. 6d.)—The origin of this Report is thus described:—" Last year Mr. Alfred Mosely invited the Parliamen- tary Industry Committee to nominate a representative on his......

Queen Elizabeth And The Levant Company. By The Rev. H.

G. Rosedale, D.D. (H. Frowde. 10s. 6d. net.)—That this is a sumptuous volume, with its facsimiles, portraits, Ise., is plain enough ; we do not feel so certain about the......

A .tunior History Of England. By Charles Oman And Mary

Oman. (E. Arnold. 2s.)—A book of this kind, the work of one who is a practised writer and an acknowledged authority on his subject, is open to one kind of criticism only,—is the......

Christopher Columbus : His Life, His Work, His Remains. By

John Boyd Thatcher. Vol. III (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 36s. net.)— Mr. Thatcher, in this sumptuous volume, magnificent in its typography, illustration, and binding, brings his great......

We Have Received Vol. V. Of The Linguistic Survey Of

India (Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta). It deals with the "Lade-Aryan Languages : Eastern Group." In view of the recently completed Census of......

The Agamemnon Of Yeschylus. Translated Into English Verse...

Thring. (A. Constable and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—This translation, the task of a great schoolmaster's scanty leisure, was finished three years before his death ; and now, seventeen......

Dictionary Of Names, Nicknames, And Surnames. By Edward...

and Sons. 3s. 6d.)—This is likely to be a useful book of reference, though, as might be expected, it is not without omissions. Here are some military nicknames which occur as we......