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Unknown London: Its Romance And Tragedy. By A. T. Camden

Pratt. (Neville Beeman.)—" Places Generally Unknown" is the correction which Mr. Pratt supplies in his sub-title. Even this we might question. Not a few of the places which......

Across Greenland's Ice - Fields. By M. Douglas. (nelson...

has compressed in a volume of convenient size the narratives of Lieutenant Peary and Nansen. To those who cannot easily get access to the originals, this summary, intelligently......

A Sturdy Beggar And Lady Bramber's Ghost. By Charles...

(A. Constable and Co.)—We must own that our patience failed before we could get half through the first of these two stories. The second we found more readable. " Ghost " is used......

Time More About Egypt Than Any One Else, Wrote In

1835 a description of Cairo which was originally intended for his famous book, " Modern Egyptians." He did not, as a matter of fact, so use it, though he took some passages from......

Stories Included In This Volume, But It Is Not The

best. The con- duct of Frank Fisher in coming back to the scene of his supposed crime is very extraordinary, to say the least. The whole tale seems quite remote from ordinary......

The Art Of Extempore Speaking. By Harold Ford. (elliot...

is a book of excellent advice. Think accurately, write constantly, master your subject,—these, and the like pre- cepts are explained and enforced. Of course, one does not learn......

The Municipal Year - Book, 1897. By Robert Donald....

Son.)—Mr. Donald has put together in a convenient shape copious information about the administration, revenues and expenditure, property and rateable value, of the principal......

School And Home Life. By T. G. Rooper, M.a. (a.

Brown and Sons.)—These "Essays and Lectures on Current Educational Topics" touch on most of the educational subjects which divide the opinions of the day, and on some on which......

Which Has Reached A Second Edition. It Is A Very

good application of the Golden Legend, with its eternal truth of the blessing of sacrifice.......

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New Editions And Reprints.—the Whitehall Shakespeare....

Doubleday, with the assistance of T. Gregory Foster and Robert Elson. Vol. VIII. (Constable and Co.)—The volume contains " Venus and Adonis," " The Rape of Lucrece," the "......