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Meology.-1 - 114illetions On The Revelation Of St. John...

the Rev. Cresswell Strange. (Longmaus and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Strange's theory is that the book was originally a Jewish composition (chaps. xi.-xii., for instance, he regards as......

Essays.—a Paladin Of Philanthropy, And Other Papers. By...

(Chatto and Windus. Cs.)—Mr. Austin, Dobson has collected in this volume some twelve or thirteen essays published in various periodicals. The "Paladin," from which the volume......

The Flora Of C7w4hire. By Lord De Tabley. Edited By

Spencer Moore. (Longmsms and Co. 16s. net.)—Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff supplies an excellent little memoir of Lord de Tabley, who was a many-sided man. He was, in the first......

Short Stories.—two Of These Volumes May Be Mentioned...

Creek and Gully. By Australian Writers in England. Edited by Lida Fisher. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—We have, not reckoning an introduction in verse by the editor, twenty sketches......

"the Prince Of Army Chaplains," By Colonel Colomb (burns And

Oates), begins with a chapter entitled "Shakespeare's Catholic Literature," " Catholic " not being used in the literary sense, as It often has been used of Shakespeare, but in......

Essonooks.—the Series Of "murray's English Handbooks...

concluded by A Handbook of Warwick- shire (6s.), the central county of England," to which is allotted a volume of its own. It is needless to speak in praise of these excel- lent......

The Good Queen Charlotte. By Percy Fitzgerald. (downey...

10s. 6d.)--Mr. Fitzgerald does not believe, it is clear, in Lord Byron's famous description of the Queen. "Bad he contradicts by the title of his volume, and, in respect of......

Nineteenth Annual Report Of The United States Geological...

By Charles I). Walcott. (Government Printing Office, Washington.)—Here we have the two divisions of the Sixth and Final Part of the Report, containing particulars as to metallic......

The History Of Me Laws And Courts Of Hong-kong. By

James William Norton-Kyshe. 2 vols. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s.)—This work is, in fact, a history of the Colony of Hong-kong as regards its government, political and judicial. The......