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Illustrations Of School Classics. By G. F. Hill...

Co. 10s. 6d.)—Mr. Hill collects here in a volume a number of illustrations which, with a very few exceptions, have appeared in the series of "Elementary Classics." There are......

Chaueer's Indebtedness To Guido Dells Colonne. By George...

MA. (Columbia University Press, New York. 5s. net.) —This volume is the outcome of the system of post-graduation study which is so well developed in the United States, and so......

A New Edition Of An Excellent Picture Map Of Palestine,

compiled by Frances E. Wood (S.S.U., 125. 6d.), deserves mention. It is admirably clear and effective. The scale is three miles to the inch, quite sufficient for all practical......

Messrs. M. Dent And Co. Publish The Irish Sketch-book, By

William Makepeace Thackeray, edited by Walter Jerrold, illus- trated by C. E. Brock (3s. net). The Sketch-Book was the result of an arrangement with Messrs. Chapman and Hall,......

Give The Territories Belonging To The Various Dioceses,...

missionary. The editor writes a preface which is, as usual, sensible, and not without humour. The clergy sees to be a somewhat troublesome clientele. Not a few are too ready to......

A Welcome Little Book Is Hymns And Psalms, By Horace

Smith (Macinillan and Co., 2s. 6d.) The volume is of the slenderest. Mr. s m iqi writes, it is dear, only when he feels that he has something to say. Most of it, also, has been......

Guide To The Best Fiction. By Ernest A. Baker. (swan

Sonnenschein and Co. Be. 6d. net.)—Possibly the adjective " best " may be applied a little too liberally. Here are four hundred and eighty-seven pages (exclusive of the indices)......

How To Become A Private Secretary. By Arthur Sheppard. (t.

Fisher Unwin. ls.)—Mr. Sheppard subdivides his subjects into" Qualifications," "Training," "Work." This indicates that the title does not exactly describe the contents of the......