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In The Series Of "handbooks Of Practical Gardening" (john...

2s. 6d. net) we have The Book of the Cottage Garden, by Charles Thonger. Mr. Monger hastens to explain that the "cottage" is not the dwelling of the "cottager" proper, but the......

The Manufacture Of Paper. By R. W. Sindall. (a. Constable

and Co. 6s, net.)—Mr. Sindall tolls us what paper is made of—a subject much larger now than it was fifty years ago, and still increasing—and bow it is made. What the skill of......

Readable Novnts.—pomp And Circumstance. By Dorothea,...

story of a girl who has some claim to be called a modern Antigone, and of how she saved her father from a despairing snicide.—Mrs. Whiston's House Party. By Thomas Cobb.......

The Possibilities Of Modern Poultry Farming. By J....

and Wilfred H. G. Ewart. (Cable Publishing Company. Is. not.)---The authors mauifostly understand their subject. This subject may be thus divided: (1) providing for the......

How To Get Married. By The Author Of "how To

be Happy though Married." (T. Fisher Unwin. is. not.)—Here we are told all about banns, licenses, weddings in church, in the registrar's office, and so forth. Also we read about......

Songs Of England Awaking. By George Barlow. (henry J....

Cd. net.)—These "songs" are eight in number, and contain in all some six hundred lines, very vigorous linos many of them, and of such plain speech that we must leave our readers......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of The week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Petticoat Pilgrims on Trek. By Mrs, Fred, Maturin. (Eveleigh Nash. 7s.......

Letters From A Working Man. By An American Mechanic....

II. Revell Company. 3s. Od.)—The "American Mechanic" has much to say that is instructive, and not a little that will be unfamiliar to English readers, Here is one fact. There......

In The "british Museum Handbooks" We Have A Guide To

the Egyptian Galleries (Sculpture) (1s. 6d.) The statues, &a., are chronologically arranged, the earliest belonging to the Third Dynasty (with a probable date of 3,800 B.C.),......