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It Is More Than Forty Years Since Thackeray, Who Had

just published " Esmond," started for a lecturing tour in the States with Mr. Crowe as his companion. Throughout the larger portion of his life, Mr. Crowe has been s ilent with......

The Akhmeni Fragment Of The Apocryphal Gospel Of St. Peter,

Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by H. B. Swete, D.D. (Macmillan.)—This fragment was found at Akhmtm (Chommis in Herodotus, Panopolis in Greek time) in the winter of......

Notes On This Nicomachean Ethics Of Aristotle. By J. A.

Stewart. 2 vols. (The Clarendon Press.)—There is something eminently businesslike about this work. Mr. Stewart does not spend any time or space on introductory essays, which are......

The Lost Atlantis, And Other Ethnographical Studies. By...

Wilson. (D. Douglas.)—These eight essays, the post- humous work of a highly distinguished student of anthropology, cover a wide extent of ground,—so wide that it is impossible......

British History And Papal Claims. By James Paton, B. #

. 2 vols. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The author of this book tells us pretty clearly in his preface what he thinks of its value. "If this history has in any degree realised the aim......

Warwickshire" Is Far Superior In Character To The Average...

book. It is a volume that may be read with interest anywhere, while it fulfils its special purpose with admirable completeness. in Ease it is convenient, for it would not make a......

The Zambesi Basin And Nyassa-land. By Daniel J. Rankin,...

M.R.A.S. With maps and illustrations. (William Blackwood and Sons.)--This is a prettily-got-up, but otherwise very disappointing, bcok. More than the first half is taken up with......