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_eris And Connie's Cruise In The South Pacific. By C.

F. de M. Malan, R.N. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Eris and Connie are a boy and girl who live with an uncle in Burwood, a suburb of Sydney, and whom he takes on a cruise among the......

Dr. Joseph Parker Has Carried On As Far As The

eleventh volume his gigantic task of The People's Bible (Hazell, Watson, and Viney). The book of " Job " is his present subject. His treatment is, as may be supposed, homiletic.......

Papua And 'dill Papuans.*

Tars very pleasantly written volume affords abundant proof that Mr. Romilly is the very man for the task he has accepted, of paving the way for such civilisation as the natives......

In The Land Of Marvels : Polk - Tales From Austria And

Bohemia. By T. Vernaleken. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—This is a reissue, with neat illustrations, of a book published some years ago by the same firm. The sixty tales given,......

Principles Of The Law Of Negligence. By Thomas Beven....

and Haynes.)—One may get an idea of the com- plexity of the subject, of the vast variety of details which it embraces, and, consequently of the enormous labour which the writer......

Current Literature.

A Change of Clothes. By Alfred Fitzmaurice King. (Simpkin and Marshall.)—This story, the first of a series which is to bear the title of " Our Books," is a very humorous......