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The Literary Year Book (g. Routledge And Sons, 5s. Net)

con- tains a "Directory of Authors," extending to two hundred and eighty pages, and containing, to make a rough guess, about two thousand five hundred names (it would be......

The Mammals Of Great Britain And Ireland. By J. G.

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Round France In A Motor. By C. Neville. (simpkin, Marshall,

and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—" I have no hairbreadth escapes to relate," says our author. The hairbreadth escapes rather concern the people outside the motor. His only victim was a......

Gloucester In National History. By F. A. Hyett. (john...

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Winged Words. (john Lane. 7s. 6d. Net.)—the Anonymous...

together , some sixty essays of varying length, and, we may add, of varying merit. Some of them we could very well do without altogether (pp. 106-124). In others there are......

In The Series Of "the Children's Heroes" (t. C. And

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[Under this howling w. notice such Books of ths toes% as have not been reserved for review in otlisr forme.] • The Ancient Crosses and Holy Wells of Lancashire. By Henry Taylor.......

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Maids Of Honour. By A. J. Green-armytage. (w. Blackwood And

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