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Centenary History Of The South Place Society. By Moncure D.

Conway, M.A. (Williams and Norgate.)—This is an interesting record of a place with many associations, not the less interesting because it tells us how very far it has moved away......

Studies In Character. By Sophie Bryant, D.sc. (swan...

and Co.)—We cannot discuss the topics of which Mrs. Bryant treats. To do so, would take us over a very large por- tion of the realm of morals and life. But we may commend the......

The Monastery Of The Grande Chartreuse. By " A Carthusian

Monk." (Bums and Oates.)—Even the immutable Carthusian move. Can we imagine St. Bruno contemplating the publica- tion of a volume, written in France by a monk of his order,......

The Rights Of Women. By H. Ostrogorski. (swan...

Co.)—This is a very complete résumé of the whole case. The right of succession to the Throne, the possession of the suffrage, " collective sovereignty," as it is styled, local......

In An Alpine Valley, By G. Manville Fenn. 3 Vols.

(Hurst and Blackett.)—We hope that Mr. Manville Fenn has not drawn his Bedford Row solicitor from the life. As it is, his story will sensibly diminish the confidence with which......

The Hebrew Twins. By The Late Samuel Cox, D.d. (t.

Fisher Unwin.)—Dr. Cox left this volume, consisting of sermons which he had preached to his congregation at Nottingham, prepared for the Press. It represents, therefore, his......

The Quatrains Of Omar Khayyam. Translated By E. H. Whin-

field. (Kagan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—This is a new edition of a volume in " Triibner's Oriental Series." Mr. Whinfield has selected two hundred and fifty of the Quatrains as the......

Six Common Things. By E. F. Benson. (osgood, Mclivaine, And

Co.)—These sixteen sketches and essays have no little attrac- tion about them. The first, with its unpretending account of an early experience of the writer—the change from......

The Pilgrim In Old England. By Amory H. Bradford. (j.

Clarke and Co.)—Mr. Bradford came over from the States to take stock of the condition of English Congregationalism, and, as a necessary part of the subject, of what he calls the......

A Naughty Girl. By J. Ashby Sterry. (bliss, Sands, And

Foster.)—This is a well-told and readable story. The writer lays his scene, for a part of his story, in Great Ormond Street, a locality which he describes with evident......