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Scottish Portraits. Edited By James L. Caw.- It. C. And

E. e.. Jack. 21s. net.)—This, the fifth portfolio, completes the work,' which now gives us a gallery of distinguished personitges,=.-f beginning with James III. and ending with.......

The Responsibilities Of The Novelist. By Frank Norris....

6s.)—Mr. Norris takes the American point of view, and what he says has, accordingly, to be occasionally modified by the English reader. Nevertheless, this same reader, if he has......

Recollections Of James Martineau. By The Rev. Alexander...

(G. A. Morton, Edinburgh. 3s. 6d. net.) —Mr. Craufurd tells us that he made the acquaintance of James Martineau in 1892 (he was then in his eighty-eighth year, but full of......

The Oxford English Dictiiinewft:' (clarendon Ptess. 5s.)...

double section, edited • by Henry - 0 Bradley, gives the conclusion of "L" (Lock-LyYn), forming the first half of VoL VI. (the second half will contain " M and " N It is, as......

Thi Bible On. The Battlefield. By F. C. Vernon Harcourt.

(Marshall Brothers. 35. 6d. net.)—Mr. Vernon Harcourt - T went out to South Africa on the mission of distributing to the soldiers: a number of "Soldier's New Testaments," an......

Charles Haddon. Spurgeon. • By One -who Alnew-him .well. (a.

Melrose. • 2s. fkl. net.)—This "biographical sketch and appreciation" is very well done. The writer does not blindly admire, but discriminates with much judgment between......

New Erornows.—asui And Europe. By Meredith Townsend. (a....

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Two Awheel. By Arthur Jose. (j. M. Dent And Co.

3s. &I. net.) —This volume contains some twenty sketches, stories, and descriptions of persons and places in Australia, especially , in Sydney, where some of them have appeared......

• We May Mention, Though, Of Course, Without Any Thought

of criticising, the publication of a little volume by the late Bishop Westoott, Common Prayers for Family Use (Macmillan and Co., Is. net). • Theie prayers were put together by......

Sciziool And Class Boexs.—cateehisings For The Church Ant...

Series III. By the Rev. J. H. Potter and Rev.' A. E. W. Shearel. (Skeffington and Son. 2s. net.)—This third is occupied with "The Life of Our Lord." The system of catechising......

The Care Of A House. By T. M. Clark. (macmillan

and Co 16s. 6d. net.)—Let it be observed that it is a " house "—i.e., the building, not the " household"—about which Mr. Clark discourses. In other words, this is not a book......