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In " The Bibelots " Series, Edited By J. Potter

Briscoe (Gay and Bird, 2s. 6d. net), we have Persian Love Songs, containing translations and paraphrases from some fifteen poets, of whom the best known names are Ferdusi, Omar......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as haus not been reserred fur reniew in other forms.] Eirenny Priory. By Colonel J. B. Turbervill. (Elliot Stock. is.......

Samuel And His Age. By George C. M. Douglas, D.d.

(Eyre and Spottiswoode. 6s.)—Dr. Douglas takes up a strongly con- servative position, holding, for instance, that Deuteronomy was written by Moses, though possibly showing a few......

We Welcome The Hampstead Annual, 1901, Edited By...

Matheson and Sydney C. Maple (S. C. Mayle, 2s. 63. net). The first paper is a well-deserved tribute of praise and gratitude to air Walter Besant. We see some noteworthy remarks......

Current Literat Ure.

THE ROYAL NAVY. The Royal Navy. Edited by W. Laird Clowes. Vol. VI. (S imp- son Low, Marston, and Co. 259. net.)—The peculiarity of this volume is that it begins and ends with......

Novz Legends Anglie : As Collected By John Of Tynemouth,

John Capgrave, and others. Re-edited by Carl Horstman, Ph.D. "2 vols. (The Clarendon Press. 36s. net.)—A " Note," not worded, we may say in passing, with academia elegance,......