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The Ancient Egyptian Doctrine Of The Immortality. By...

(Grevel and Co.)—Dr. Wiedemann unravels with much skill this perplexing subject, and explains by these means ithe elaborate ceremonial which attended the preservation and......

A Gentleman Adventurer. By John Bloundell-burton. (andrew...

Panama" is a very spirited narrative of adventure. It tells how a certain Hugh Bellenden journeyed to the Isthmus to take part in the colonisation scheme which William Fergusson......

We Have Received The Sixth Volume Of The History Of

Canada, by William Kingsford (Rowsell and Hutchison, Toronto ; Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.) The period covered is 1808-1815, including the war of 1812, down to the Treaty of......

The Demagogue And Lady Phayre. By William J. Locke. (w.

Heinemann.)—This is a powerful story in which the characters and circumstances of a not uncommon tragedy are skilfully com- bined. Daniel Goddard is a champion of the working......

The Natural History Of Plants. From The German Of Anton

Kerner von Marilaun. Translated and edited by F. W. Oliver, M.A., with the assistance of Marian Busk, B.Sc., and Mary Ewart, B.Sc. Vol. IV. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The......

A Deadly Foe. By Adeline Sergeant. (hutchinson And Co.)—...

"Romance of the Northern Seas" has a touch of Jules Verne in it, or perhaps we should go a little further back and say, of Herodotus and his Hyperboreans, the people who lived......

Falconer Madan, Whose Experience At The Bodleian Makes...

authority of the first order, describes the work of the Biblio- graphical Society. Mr. Austin Dobson discourses pleasantly on " Puckle's 'Club," an obscure but by no means......

Cock Robin, And Other Stories. By F. Carruthers Gould....

minster Gazette Office.) —Mr. Gould writes his fanciful stories about birds and beasts confabulating very well. And if his text is good, his illustrations, as might be supposed,......

The Expositor. Edited By W. Robertson Nicoll, M.a. Fifth...

Vol. II. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—There is nothing more generally interesting in this volume than Professor R anisay's contributions. These relate to the Acts, and will be found......