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Simple Sketches Of England And Her Churchmen In The Middle

Ages. By " L. G." (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This little history opens with the reign of William the Conqueror, and ends with the martyrdom of William Tyndale in 1536. The......

My Reminiscences. By Luigi Arditi. (skeffington And...

of Signor Arditi, edited by the Baroness von Zedlitz, are exactly what we might expect. Stage-folk, despite (or by reason of) their special genius, are often in other matters......

William I., German Emperor, And His Successors. By Mary...

(W. and R. Chambers.)—This is a useful little manual of Prussian history, for it deals with the Emperor William's predecessors as well as his successors. The writer's account of......

Two Books About London May Be Mentioned Together. London...

Names, by F. H. Habben, B.A. (T. Fisher Unwin), is a careful collection of notes about London streets. These notes are conveniently arranged in alphabetical order. Of course as......

What They Say In New England. Collected By Clifton Johnson

(Lee and Shepard, Boston.)—We confess to a fondness for books of folk-lore, especially when they are not too recondite and have the true smack of rusticity. There is often so......

Poems Of Henry Vaughan, Sitarist. Edited By E. K. Chambers.

With an Introduction by H. C. Beeching. " The Muses' Library." 2 vols. (Lawrence and Bullen.)—Judgment and knowledge are the qualifications demanded of an editor, and both are......

The Mystery Of Handwriting. By J. Harington Keane. (lee And

Shepard, Boston.)—Mr. Keane, like all empiricists, holds that to dub any set of disconnected observations with a Greek word ending in "elegy" is to create a new science. To talk......