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The Historical Vindication Of The House Of Lords. By Sir

William T. Charley, Q.C. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.) — We should like to see a quite impartial, non-partisan appre- ciation of the House of Lords. Its action in English......

The Butterfly Hunters In The Caribbees. By Eugene Murray...

(Sampson Low and Co.)—As might be expected, the scientific interest of their quarry is stronger than any excitement likely to be felt in the adventures of the hunters......

The Post In Grant And Farm. By 3. W. Hyde.

(A. and a Black.)—There seem to have been great struggles and disputes in the seventeenth century over the Postmastership, which was usually granted to some one, who in his turn......

English Prose: Selections. Edited By Henry Craik. Vol....

millan and Co.)—Mr. Craik carries on his very useful work in this volume, which takes in the period of the "Seventeenth Century." It should be explained that by this is meant......

John Horden, Missionary Bishop. By The Rev. A. R. Buckland.

(Sunday School Union.)—John Horden was the son of a printer in Exeter. He set his heart on missionary work from very early years, and offered himself to the Church Missionary......

Memoirs Of Mary Robinson (perdita). With Introduction And...

J. Fitzgerald Molloy. (J. Lippincott, Philadelphia.)— This is a new edition of a book which the world could have spared without much loss. Mrs. Robinson told her own story, not......

The Street Of Human Habitations. By Ray S. Lineham. (chapman

and Hall.)—Mrs. Lineham takes us through a course of prehistoric research, with special regard to the dwellings of man. We are introduced to the "Men of Bone and the Men of......