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The Oxford English Dictionary. " L—lap." By Henry...

Press. 2s. 6d.)—With this part begins VoL VI. It contains more than two thousand words, an unusual number, Sue to the fact that not many are of individual importance. "Lady"......

The Tea We Drink. By E. H. Skrine And George

Brownen. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ls.)—Mr. Skrine, who grows tea, tells us how the plant ought to he, and how it is, dealt with, and Mr. Brownen, who is a chemist, discusses......

The Annual Of The British School At Athens, 1899-1900. (mac-

millan and Co. 10s. 6d.)—This number is mainly devoted to the recent discoveries at Cnossus in Crete, Messrs. A. J. Evans and D. G. Hogarth describing the Mycentean Pslace and......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not teen reserred for review in other forms.] The Books of the New Testament. By the Rev. Leighton Pullen.......

Idylls Of The Pella. By J. T. Kingsley Tarpey. (r.

Brimley Johnson. 3s. 6d )—Mr. Tarpey puts together in this vcaume thirteen studies of life in Northern England, not a little lurid in colour, and mostly of the dismal character......

Tranquillity Of Mind ; And Providence. Translated From L....

Seneca by W. B. Langsdorf, Litt.D. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 3s. 6d.)—This is a desirable little volume, whether one regards its substance or its form. Professor Langs. dorf does......

Concerning Marriage. By The Rev. E. J. Hardy. (ward, Lock,

and Co. is. )—Mr. Hardy gives us his customary com- bination of good stories and good advice. Of the quality of the advice we have no complaint to make ; some of the stories......

Times And In All Places. That At A Certain Time,

when Frederick Temple went up to Oxford, " Balliol gave promise of rivalling Oriel as a chief centre of University scholarship," is not exactly the way in which one would put......