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Lord Curzon In India, 1898 - 1903. By H. Caldwell...

A. Everett. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Lipsett is a little beforehand in telling the story of a Viceroyalty which has yet some time to run, but these are times when there must be no lingering......

Dovedale Revisited. By The Amateur Angler. (sampson Low,...

Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—We are always glad to meet the "Amateur Angler." He is modest; he is not provokingly success- ful; he is not too proud to turn the laugh against himself. He......

Boors Of Reference.—we Have Received The Sixty-fifth...

Burke's Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, 4c., edited by Ashworth P. Burke (Harrison and Sons, 42s.) The Dictionary, it will be remembered, is " Genealogical and......

Hymns Of The Holy Eastern Church. Translated From The...

Books. With Introductory Chapters by the Rev. John Brownlie. (Alex. Gardner, Paisley. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Brownlie has done good service already by bringing into notice some of......

Literary Studies Of Poems New And Old. By Dorothea Beale.

(Bell and Sons. 4s.)—These studies of Dante, Spenser, Milton, and Browning, besides their general literary merit, have a special fitness for their educational purpose. Nothing,......

The "vanity Fair" Album. (vanity Fair Office. 42s.) —...

certainly an "institution," as the editor remarks with pardonable pride. It is not a little changed from what it was in early days, retaining by reasonably faithful portraiture......

The Story Of Alchemy. By M. M. Pattison Muir, M.a.

(G. Newnes. 1s.)—Mr. Muir adds to his title "and the Beginnings of Chemistry," words which help us to understand the way in which he regards his subject. "We should never......

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.] Lectures on the History of the Nineteenth Century. Edited by F. A.......

For Efficiency. By Arnold White. (e. Hutton And Co.,...

6d.)—Mr. Arnold White has collected here a series of letters written by him to the Daily Dispatch, and described as "reflecting on the incapacity of the ruling classes and......

The Early Eucharist. By W. B. Frankland, M.a. (c. J.

Clay and Sons. 6s. net.)—Mr. Frankland has published in this volume, with some change, an essay which obtained the Hulsean Prize in 1900. He has put together the passages which......