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The Commonhealth : A Series Of Essays On Health And

Felicity for Every - day Readers. By Benjamin Ward Richardson, M.D. (Longmans.)—Dr. Richardson expands in this volume a motto which he prefixed many years ago to the first......

Studies Iil The Poetry Of Robert Browning. By James...

(Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—" Browning Societies," or, in any case, the spirit which sets these societies to work, are having their natural literary outcome. A mass of essays,......

Through The West Indies. By Mrs. Granville Layard....

and Co.)—Mrs. Layard visited Tobago, Trinidad, Demerara, Jamaica, Barbados, and other West Indian Colonies. On the whole, she preferred Barbados, putting, perhaps, Demerara......

The Court Of Session Garland. Edited By James Maidment....

and Adams, London ; T. D. Morison, Glasgow.)—Mr. Maidment has brought together in this volume a number of humorous or would-be humorous pieces. Only a few are really worthy of......

Golden South Africa. By E. P. Mathers, F.r.g.s. (w. B.

Wittingham and Co.)—Mr. Mathers evidently believes in a glowing future for golden Africa, firmly believing it to be the modern " Ophir," and being very much inclined to the view......

Quantitative Analysis. By W. N. Hartley. (macmillan And...

short course on gravimetric and volumetric methods, and mineral and alloys analysis. A simple and clearly written guide to laboratory methods.......

My Telescope. By A Quekett Club-man. (roper And Drowley.)...

little introduction to astronomy is by the author of " My Microscope," and is written in the same chatty and simple style He discourses pleasantly on the sun, the moon, and the......

The Fall Of Maximilian's Empire. By Seaton Schroeder. (g. P.

Putnam's Sons.)—Lieutenant Schroeder, U.S.N., was on service in the U.S. steamer Tacmy,' which was stationed at Vera Cruz during the period which witnessed the fall of......

The Decline Of British Prestige In The East. By Selim

Faris. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—The style of the work before us bears unmistakable signs of the newspaper article about it, though this quality renders it decidedly readable, and......

Holiday Papers : Teetotalism. By James Maltman. (j....

Maltman collects in this volume a number of tracts or pamphlets, written, as he explains, in the intervals of ministerial work. Their object is to expose the unreason and in-......

Gospel Difficulties. By J. J. Holcombe, M.a. (kegan Paul,...

and Co.)—Mr. Halcombe has found, he thinks, a key to unlock the difficulties which have puzzled the Harmonists ever since they began their labours. A section of St. Luke's......

Practical Biology. By Huxley And Martin. Extended By...

Scott. (Macmillan and Co.)—The plan of the original edition, published in 1876, has been altered in so much that instead of commencing at the lowest and microscopical forms of......