6 APRIL 1889, page 23

Government Year - Book, 1889. Edited By Lewis Sergeant....

is a "Record of the Forms and Methods of Government in Great Britain, her Colonies, and Foreign Countries." An introduction deals with the questions of the " diffusion of......

An Admirably Vigorous Paper On Teaching, Stimulus, By A....

M.A. (Cambridge University Press), has reached, we are glad to see, a new edition. Whether it has been noticed before in these columns, we cannot say; but we cannot do wrong in......

Side - Lights On The Stuarts. By F. A. Inderwick, M.a....

Low and Co.)—This volume contains eight essays dealing with various subjects and personages of the seventeenth century. "That High and Mighty Prince, King James," is the subject......

Selections From Schiller's Poems. Translated By E. P....

(Hamilton, Adams, and Co.)—Mr. Arnold-Forster gives us here some praiseworthy translations, mostly of poems which are already well known to readers cf Schiller. We are inclined......

Current Literature.

The Colonial Office List for 1889. By John Anderson and Sidney Webb. (Harrison and Sons.)—This universal dictionary of the Colonies well maintains its character for variety of......

Books Received. — Remarkable Bindings In The British...

Wheatley. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a volume which will interest book-lovers. It contains descriptions, illustrated by photographs, of sixty-two book-covers belonging to the......

Songs Of A Revolutionary Epoch. By J. L. Joynes. (foulger

and Co.)—The " German revolutionary poets " are the singers whose utterances Mr. Joynes renders into English verse, and renders, we may say, with much spirit. Heine and......