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Though We Cannot Altogether Agree With The Principles...

guided Mr. Alfred M. Williams in making his selection, his Poets and Poetry of Ireland (J. R. Osgood and Co., Boston, U.S.A.) is none the less a very interesting collection. All......

Tinctly Silly. But One Finds That This Is Done Of

set purpose. The silliness is to suit and symbolise the kind of life which the story portrays. Go to Florida and live on an orange-plantation, and this is the kind of thing into......

City Girl : A Realistic Story. By John Law. (vizstelly

and Co.)—We are like many readers, we fancy, in feeling a shudder of apprehension when we see a story described by its author as "realistic." It is pretty sure to be a picture......

Between The Recuperative Bodily Power Of Man In A Rude

and in a Highly Civilised State. (Harrison and Sons.) It was suggested by Professor Horsley's lecture on "The Operation of Trephining during the Neolithic Period in Europe," and......

We Have Received The Eighteenth Volume Of The Proceedings Of

the Royal Colonial Institute. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The State : the Rudiments of New Zealand Sociology. By James H. Pope. (G. Didabury, Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.)—Mr.......

Nsiv Editions And Reprints.—the Chair Of Peter. By John...

Murphy. (Burns and Oates.)—Count Murphy completes this third edition of his book, "with events and statistics brought down to the present time," and has, it cannot be doubted, a......

Noteworthy Passages From His Life In The Said University...

with a particular relation of his voyage to Nombre de Dios under that renowned Navigator, the late Sir Francis Drake." Mr. Corbett has made an interesting tale out of his......