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. Henry Ward Beecher. By Lyman Abbott. (hodder And...

'Is. 6d.)—Dr. Abbott gives in this volume a careful appreciation of H. W. Beecher, whose place at Plymouth Church he was called to fill. Some thirty years before he had become a......

Compositions And Traits',aims By The Late H. C. P. Mason.

(C. J. Clay and Sons. 35. 6d. net.)—This slender volume is all that remains, besides the affectionate recollections of a circle of friends, of an accomplished and admirable man.......

The Massive Volume Of Country Life, 1903, Second...

Newnes, 21e.), is as full as usual of the ornamental and useful. Various Royal and noble beauties allow us to admire their faces ; there are sundry fine things in houses,......

Points Of The Horse. By M. Horace Hayes. (hurst And

Blackett. 34s.)—This is a third edition, and belongs to a class of books with which we cannot in any case deal in detail. But the circumstances in which the book now appears, as......

The This Abraham Lincoln. By William Eleroy Curtis. (j. B.

Lippincott Company. 10s. 6d. net.)—It is not likely that there is much in this volume which is not to be found in the massive work of Messrs. Hay and Nieolay ; but without doubt......

New Enrrions And Iteraurrs.—in The "mermaid Series" (t....

John Dryden, 2 vols., edited, with Introduction and Notes, by George Saintsbnry (5s.) We should explain that it is the plays which are printed in these two volumes. We are-in-......