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Wild Life Of Scotland. By J. H. Crawford, F.l.s. (john

Macqueen.)—This is a very delightful as well as informing book which, in respect of style, recalls Thoreau rather than either Jefferies or Burroughes. "I am touched," says Mr.......

Scottish Poetry Of The Eighteenth Century. Edited By...

Vol I. (William Hodge and Co., Glasgow.)—We have here in a handy, well-printed, and not too large book, the first volume of what promises to be a very comprehensive an.- thology......

School-books.

Essentials of New Testament Greek. By John H. Huddilston. (Macmillan and Co.)—This is an attempt to find a royal road to the learning of Greek,—at least, of so much Greek as may......

Your Money Or Your Life. By Edith Carpenter. (sampson Low

and Co.)—This is a very amusing and unconventional book—very amusing and unconventional indeed to be written by a lady. It tells how a young man of business in New York is......

Eli's Daughter. By J. H. Pearce. (william Heinemann.)—...

a powerful, ably written, and, so far as character and dialect are concerned, eminently realistic story of Cornwall and Cornish mines. From the purely literary point of view it......

Isban-rerael. By George Cossins. (gay And Bird.) — Mr....

has set himself, perhaps too obviously, to" beat the record" in South African sensationalism. It is only fair to him, however, to say that he has succeeded in his enterprise.......

A Home In Inveresk. By T. L. Paton. (methuen.)—this Is

a rather slight story, and, although the scene of it is laid in Scot- Land, the characteristics of what has come to be known as the Scottish school of fiction are conspicuous by......