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The Decisive Battles Of India, From 1746 To 1840, Inclusive.

By Colonel G. B. Malleson, C.S.I. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—A work bearing such a fascinating title, and from the author of "The Life of Lord Clive," deserves fuller notice than we......

Race-course And Covert-side. By Alfred C. T. Watson....

Son.)—There is a little in this volume about shooting, more about hunting, and more yet about racing, the whole being made up with some miscellaneous articles. We must own that......

The Christian Brothers ; With A Sketch Of The Life

of their Founder. By Mrs. R. F. Wilson. (Began Paul and Co.)— Without doubt, the interest of this little history becomes in- tensified in the four last chapters, which bring......

Bordighera And The Western Riviera. By Frederick Fitzroy...

from the French by Alfred C. Dowson. (E. Stanford.)—This volume is a quite exhaustive treatise on the subject with which it deals. Bordighera was, it seems, first brought into......

Socialism And Communism In Their Practical Application....

M. Kaufmann, M.A. (S.P.C.K.)—This volume is about equally divided between the past and the present. The first six chapters describe ancient, mediasval, and more recent but yet......

The One Mediator ; The Operation Of The Son Of

God in Nature and in Grace. By Peter Goldsmith Medd, MA., the Bampton Lecture for 1882. (Rivingtons.) —Mr. Medd has got hold of a great and true conception, but has failed......

The Gospel In Paris. Sermons By The Rev. Eugene Bersier,

D.D. ; translated by the Rev. Frederic Hastings. (Nisbet and Co.)—These striking sermons, whioh Mr. Hastings has translated with uncommon skill, are another distinction to the......