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The Sedbergh School Register, 1546 - 1895. (r. Jackson,...

Provost of Eton (d. 1540) founded a school in his native town of Scdbergh, and joined with it a chantry. The chantry of course was seized temp. Edward VI, but the school had......

Messrs. Relfe Brothers Send Us A Classical And Scriptural...

edited by George Carter, M.A., containing sixteen maps showing the geography of the Orbis Veteribus Notus. — We have also to acknowledge two volumes of the New Technical......

Nonius Mercellus De Compendiosa Doctrine, I-iii. Edited,...

Critical Apparatus, by the late J. H. Onions. (Clarendon Press.)—This volume, which appears under the care of Professor W. M. Lindsay, contains the work which Mr. Onions, at his......

In Bibliographica : Part Vii. (kegan Paul, Trench, And Co.),

Mr. Allnutt continues the subject of Provincial Presses down to the year 1750. Many of the notices refer to newspapers. Sir E. M. Thompson writes on "The Grotesque and the......

The Origins Of Invention. By Otis T. Mason. (walter Scott.)

—This book, the outcome of a paper on" The Birth of Invention," read at the Centenary of the American Patent System in 1891, is constructed on something of the same lines that......

Life And Letters Of John Cairns, Dd. By Alexander R.

MacEwen. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—One's first impulse on taking this massive volume—it contains more than eight hundred pages—into one's hands, is to exclaim against the......

Life Of Ernest Renee. By Francis Espinasse. (walter...

Renan was, as he was wont to say himself, a mixture of Breton and Gascon. The story of his mental and spiritual development is one of the most curious on record. The Breton was......

Dictionary Of Phrase And Fable. By E. Cobham Brewer, Ll.d.

New edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged. (Cassell )—Dr. Brewer explains that this book, which has reached in a period of twenty-five years its hundredth thousand, has been......