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Our Battalion. By L. Raven-hill. (punch Office. 6s....

Volunteer Movement" is sufficiently strong to stand being laughed at. Indeed, after the South African experiences, some of the jokes that are aimed at them are a little out of......

The Earth In Relation To The Preservation And Destruction Of

Contagia. By G. V. Poore, M.D. (Longmans and Co. 5s. net.)— Dr. Poore pursues with admirable energy his crusade against the popular system of sanitation so-called. He champions......

Lights And Shadows In A Hospital. By Alice Terton. (methuen

and Co. 3s. (ld.)—Mrs. Terton has had a considerable and varied experience of nursing. She began by being a " supplementary nurse." This, she explains, is a dignified name for......

1. Passmore Edwards. By E. Harcourt Burrage. (s. W....

and Co. ls. 6d.)—This is one of a class of books which does not call for criticism. The multitudes of people who have heard about Mr. Passmore Edwards, and have been benefited,......

New Editions.—we Are Glad To See That There Has Been

sufficient demand to warrant a new edition of Tecumseh, by Charles Mair (W. Briggs, Toronto). Mr. Mair has added some poems from an earlier volume. Tecumseh, it will be......

Recreations And Reflections. (j. M. Dent And Co....

a collection of "Saturday middles,"—we may be excused for explaining, there being no bounds to human ignorance, that a "Saturday middle " is mutatis mutandis the equivalent to a......

Common Wealth Or Empire By Goldwin Smith, D.c.l. (mac-...

and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—One might use of Mr. Goldwin Smith the phrase which Mr. Courtney used so very infelicitously of Lord 3filner,—" a lost mind." There is to be seen in this......