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The Myths Of Israel. By Amos Bidder Fiske. (macmillan And

Co.)—This book is a specimen of the Higher Criticism at work, unrestrained by any of the compromises which the sur- roundings of most Biblical scholars suggest. The reader will......

Curiosities Of Bird Life. By Charles Dixon. (george...

Charles Dixon is well known as the author of several popular works on ornithology, and is moreover a man of science and an observer. 'I he present work ix, according to his own......

The Royal Gardens, Kew, In All Seasons Of The Year.

(Daw- barn and Ward.)—A. quotation from the late Richard Jefferies describing Kew Gardens as "a great green book, whose broad pages are illuminated with flowers, lying open at......

Philippian Studies. By H. C. G. Moule, D D. (hodder

and Stoughton.)—Dr. Moule's treatise is largely hostatory and devo- tional. This characteristic, however, does not interfere in the least with the close and careful attention......

Religious Teaching In Secondary Schools. By The Rev....

Bell. (Macmillan and Co.)—There is nothing, it may be said, in the whole cycle of education about which there is more delusion than religious teaching." A very large portion of......

Lectures In The Lyceum. By St. George Stock. (longmans And

Co.)—These "Lectures" are, as the sub-title explains, "Aristotle's Ethics for English Readers." It was a happy thought to restore the Ethics to the form which they originally......