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Letters To Living Authors. By J. A. Steuart. (sampson Low

and Co.)—Mr. Steuart has written a number of letters to authors of the day with considerable vivacity and frank criticism. This criticism is fairly good of its kind ; it misses......

A Treatise On The Common Sole. By J. T. Cunningham.

(The Marine Biological Association, Plymouth.)—The common sole, as one of the most delicious of British fish, has had the honour—the well-deserved honour, we might say—of an......

Creation's Hope. By Marcus S. C. Rickards, M.a. (j. Baker

and Son.)—This is an elaborate argument in verse between a sceptic and a believer. It is unequal; arguing in verse tasks powers of expression to the utmost; but there are fine......

Historical Sketch Of The Equitable Jurisdiction Of The...

Chancery. By D. M. Kerly, M.A.., LL.B. (Cambridge University Press.)—The history of English Equity is rather too large a subject for a York Prize Essay; but Mr. Kerly, the......

Field And General Ornithology. By Elliott Couob....

is abridged from Professor Coues's "Key to North American Birds," and adapted to suit British naturalists, anti treats in two parts of " field" ornithology and general......

A Bride From The Bush. By Ernest William Hornung. (smith,

Elder, and Co.)—Alfred Bligh, elder son of an English Judge, marries an Australian girl. It is carefully explained, indeed the girl says herself, that she is not a typical......

Giovanni Pico Della Mirando/a : His We. By His Nephew.

Translated by Sir Thomas More, and edited by J. M. Rigg. (David Nutt.)—Except as a peg to hang Mr. Rigg's learned intro- duction on, this sumptuous reprint was scarcely worth......

Manua/ Training. By C. M. Woodward. (walter Scott.)—the...

between manual and mental training has been, and will always be, a difficult and doubtful question. To combine the two smoothly would indeed be a triumph. The writer thinks that......

The Catholic Man. By Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull. (d. Lathrop,...

U.S.)—This is a novel with a purpose ; in it we are intro- duced to three people who are striving to reach an ideal more or loss. The doctor, all intellect, keeps in view the......