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A Book Of Simples. (sampson Low, Marston, And Co. 14s.

net.) —We are told in the introduction to A Book of Simples that the original was in all probability the still-room book of some manor or large farm. And in this character it......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been weserred for review in other forms.] The Practical Wisdom of the Bible. Edited, with an Introduction, by J.......

Mumma Novels.—the Heart Smiler. By Mary E. Mann. (methuen...

Co. 6s.)—This is the story, told in Mrs. Mann's delightful way, of a fascinating young lady who, after becoming an inmate of her aunt's house on false pretences, does several......

Miss Esperance And Mr. Trycheriy. By L. Allen Harker. Vohn,

Murray. 6s.)—This is a story of two charming children brought up by an even more charming old maid and old bachelor. The older people are Scotch and the little boys English, and......

We Heartily Welcome The Report Of The Proceedings Of The

International Free-Trade Congress (Caxton House, Westminster, 5s.) The Congress, which owed its inception to Messrs. John de Witt Warner and Harvey N. Shepard, two American......

France And Germany. By Victor Meynier. (swan Sonnen-...

Co. 2s.)—M. Meynier puts together here a record of German interferences with France during the period between the Peace of Frankfort (1871) and the Conference of Algeciras......

New Monthly Magazine, National Defence, The Organ Of The...

Defence Association. The aim of the magazine is stated to be "to give information and spread knowledge on a subject upon which too many oven of the most leisured among us are......

The Olympic Games Again. By Francis Peabody, Jun....

Olympic Games are rather an old story; but we cannot help returning to the subject in order to have the pleasure of acknowledging a pamphlet by Mr. Francis Peabody which has......