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How Scotland Lost Her Parliament. By Charles Waddie....

Co., Limited, Edinburgh.)—The author of this curious little book is the leader of the Home-rule movement in Scotland. His object in writing it is to advocate the revival of a......

The Queen Of The Black Rand. By Hugh Coleman Davidson.

(Trischler and Co.)—This is a talc of Spain and Secret Societies, and for a fiction which is not written with the intention of producing any great effect, there is a great deal......

Stories From The Bible. By The Rev. Alfred J. Church.

(Mac- millan.)—Professor Church has, in a greater measure than perhaps any contemporary writer, the gift of narrating a simple story in English that is at once simple and......

Scot-free. By C. G. Compton. (kogan Paul And Co.)—the Crime

that Cartwright, the hero in Scot-Free, is made to commit, is certainly surprising and unexpected, and, we cannot help thinking, absurd ; men of his typo, however unscrupulous,......