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The Nine Of Hearts. By B. L. Farjeon. (ward And

Lock.) —Mr. Farjeon has constructed here a clever tale of circumstantial evidence, showing how a twist may be given to it by a malicious purpose, and how the truth may be......

Orford Memories. By The Rev. James Pyoroft. (bentley And...

It ie unfortunate for these two large volumes that they should have appeared jest before Sir Francis Doyle's mnob more interesting book. These memories ought never to have......

In The Change Of Yeara„ By Mee Lovelaoe. (vizetelly And

Co.) —The "realistic novels" which Messrs. Vizetelly take such a pride, it would seem, in introducing to the British public are bad enough ; but they are not so bad, in our......

The Watford Public Library Handbook Gives An Account Of What

has been done under the Public Libraries Aot in a country town of moderate size. A penny rate has been imposed (it produces £240 per annum now, three times the amount it yielded......

Stanford's Handy Atlas And Poll-book (stanford) Is The...

of a book which describes itself. It contains sixty-five maps, exhibiting by different colours (Conservatives, Liberals, Unionists, and Nationalists each having their own hoe)......

A Bird Of Passage. By B. M. Croker. (sampson Low

and Co.) —A writer who can lay the scene of his story, or at least of part of his story, in the Andaman Islands, begins with a certain advantage ; and when be takes us to......

Mountaineering Below The Snow-line. By 1j. Paterson....

from which Mr. Paterson draws his description of mountaineering—mountaineering, as he is careful to explain, of the humbler sort—are four; Snowdonia, the peaks and passes near......

Twenty - One Years' Work In The Holy Land (bentley And Son)

has been published for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, and reviews what has been done under its auspices since its founda- tion. The first report was made by......

Wild Animals Photographed And Described. Illustrated By...

of photographic negatives taken from life. By Major J. Forten4 Nott. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is one of those beautiful books which are the despair of all who strive to place......