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Herbert Fry's Royal Guide To London Charities. Edited By...

Lane. (Chatto and Windus. Is. 6d.)—This volume is one which, over and above the general utility of the information given, is full of significance. If one regards, for instance,......

The Hospital Of St. Thomas Of Assn. By Sir John

Watney. (Blades, East, and Blades.) — This second edition contains some additional items of historical information relating to the hospital. This was founded on the site of the......

"records Of Romsey Abbey. By Henry G. D. Liveing, M.a.

(Warren and Son, Winchester. 10s. 6d. net.)—The Abbey of Romsey was a Benedictine foundation dating from the early part of the tenth century. It never became a place of great......

Letters Of Literary Men In The Nineteenth Century....

Edited by Frank Arthur Mumby. (G. Routledge and Sons. 23: 6d. net.)—These letters begin with Frances Burney and end with Robert Buchanan. Mr. Mumby divides his collection into......

We Have Received Vol Ii. Of The Dickensian, "a Magazine

for Dickens lovers and monthly record of the Dickens Fellowship," Edited by B. W. Matz (Chapman and Hall, 4e. net). We have noticed from time to time monthly parts of this......

. Contemporary Portraits Of The Reformers Of Religion And...

With Introduction and Biographies by C. G. McCrie, D.D. (R.T.S. 10s. 6d.)—In 1580 Beza published at Geneva, where he had been for sixteen years "Moderator of the Venerable......

Sismondi'. History Of The Italian Republics. Edited By...

(G. Routledge and Sons. 55. net.)—We have used the term "edited," but we see from the title-page that Mr. Boniting's work on his original has been more than editing. The......

Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, And Knightage. By Sir...

Ashworth P. Burke. (Harrison and Sons. 42s. net)— " Burke," in common with the conductors of other "Peerages," comments on the extraordinarily large addition made during the......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading us notice such Books of nu wags as have not bens ramose' for /11P1410 in aim. form.] Personal Adventures and Anecdotes. By Colonel James P. Robertson. (E.......