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A Book Of Ghosts. By S. Baring-gould. (methuen And Co.

6s.)—Many of the ghosts evoked by Mr. Baring-Gould are "easy, familiar, and therefore disgusting," and none of them are either very alarming or very dignified spirits. Mr.......

Bonnie &attain& Painted By Sutton Palmer. Described By A. R.

Hope Moncrieff. (A. and C. Black. 205. net.)—This is a charming book, good to look at, good to read. We are glad to see that it is to be folloared up by a second volume, which......

Introspective Essays. By Grace A., Murray. (elliot Stock....

wish to speak with all respect of these essays, but we must own to finding them somewhat trite. Miss Murray takes some vast subject—" Truth," for instance, is the theme of her......

Uganda's Katikiro In England. By Hit Secretary, Ham...

and Edited by the Rev. Ernest Millar. (Hutchinson and Co. 108. 641. net.)—Apolo Kagwa, Katikirb—i.e., Prime Minister—of Uganda, a full-blood negro, was first a page and......

[under This Heading We Notice Such Books Of The Meek

as have not been nursed for revisit) in other form.] The Life and Work of E. X. Peck among the Eskimos. By the Rev. Arthur Lewis. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—Edmund James Peck......

Be Increased If They Could Be Made To Understand The

standpoint of the layman. . The method in which this knowledge is forced upon the Reverend John Smith is described at length in the beginning of the story, and is too amusing to......

The History Of Bread. By John Ashton. (r.t.s. Is. 64.

net.) —Mr. Ashton wonders, and not without reason,.that the history of so important a thing as bread has never been written. Never- theless, when the subject comes to be......