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Ironwork : From The Earliest Times To The End Of

the Medieval Period. By J. Starkie Gardner. With 57 illustrations. (Chap- man and Hall.)—This is one of the Art handbooks of the South Kensington Museum. It is proposed in a......

The Wild Lass Of Estmere, And Other Stories. By M.

Bramston. (Seeley.)—This volume contains seven stories, touched with the skill and grace which Miss Bramston never fails to give to her work. "The Women's Revolt," an Italian......

Founders Of Old-testament Criticism. By T. K. Cheyne,...

volume gives us a history of Old Testament criticism in a biographical form, its fault being that the bio- graphical element is not made sufficiently prominent. The fact is that......

Drawing And Engraving : A Brief Exposition Of Technical...

and Practice. By Philip Gilbert Hamerton.. With numerous illustrations. (Adam and Charles Black.)=—This is a reprint of two articles by Mr. Hamorton in the "Encyclopedia......

Welsh Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil. Edited By Richard

Lovett, M.A. With 72 illustrations. (Religious Tract Society.) —This is one of a well-known series of books in which the history and features of different countries are......

Memoirs Of The Life Of Philip Dormer, Fourth Sari Of

Chesterfield. With numerous Letters, now first published, from the Newcastle- Papers. By W. Ernst. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—The- author deserves credit for the diligence with......

Current Literature.

Verbum Dei. By Robert F. Horton. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—We cannot object to Mr. Horton's setting up a high standard of preaching. He was speaking to the ministers of the future ;......

Britannic Confederation. Edited By A. S. White. (g....

Son.)—This volume consists of articles by various authors, reprinted from the Scottish Geographical Magazine, looking at the- question of Imperial Federation from different......

Book-plates. By W. J. Hardy, F.s.a. (kegan Paul, Trench, And

Co.)—This is one of a series of " Books about Books." The subject, Book-Plates, has become a favourite excuse lately for research among collectors ; and the literature of the......

Helen Brent, M.d. (gay And Bird.)—the Author Of This "

social study " points out evils definitively enough, and does well not to do more than hint at remedies. Dr. Helen Brent is a very wise and reasonable person, and distinctly......

Art And Handicraft, By John D. Sedding. (kogan Paul And

Co.)—This is a collection of papers and lectures by the late Mr. Sedding. The last words of the book, " The chances of more cordial relations between architect, sculptor, and......