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An Exploration Of Dartmoor And Its Antiquities. By John Ll.

England. Mr. Page divides his book into four quarters, after the points of the compass, probably as convenient a method as could have been followed, after giving a preliminary......

H. M. Stanley, The African Explorer. By Arthur...

W. Partridge.)—H. M. Stanley is an Englishman, or, to speak more accurately, a Welshman (his real name is John Reliant), born at Denbigh, and educated in the workhouse school of......

Lady Missionaries In Foreign Lands. By Mrs. E. R. Pitman.

(S. W. Partridge.)—Why " lady " missionaries P We do not say " gentlemen" missionaries. Apart from this objection to an affected title, we have nothing to say against Mrs.......

Media. By Zenaide A. Ragozin. (t. Fisher Ifnwin, London ;

G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.)—We do not mean to undervalue this volume (one of the " Story of the Nation " series) when we say that its subject proper does not occupy a very......

Glimpses Of Animal Life. By William Jones, F.s.a. (elliot...

reader who begins the first chapter of this book, entitled "Animal Playfulness," will certainly finish it, and having finished it, will certainly go on to those that follow.......

We Have Received Another Volume Of The Biblical...

the Rev. Joseph S. Exell, M.A. (J. Nisbet and Co.) It deals with the Gospel of St. Luke, and, as it contains between seven and eight hundred pages very closely printed (the......

The Parliamentary History Of Cornwall. By W. P. Courtney....

for private circulation.)—Mr. Courtney tells the story of the representation of Cornwall, of its County Members, and of the Burgesses who sat for its boroughs, down to the year......

Blooms And Brambles : A Book Of Verses. By Edgar

Fawcett. (Elliot Stock.)—The critic whose lot it has been to read much of the verse produced by our minor poets will be struck by the great facility displayed in versification,......

Cut By The Mess. By Arthur Keyser. (chatto And Windus.)—

The plot of this story is very simple. One of two messmates- they belong to a man-of-war—" shows the white-feather " in a row in which they foolishly involve themselves, and the......