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Staying Power. By The Rev. Peter Anton. (alex. Gardner,...

3s, 6d. net.)—Mr. Anton begins these" Reconsiderations and Recreations" with a very doubtful statement. "I follow," he says, "the example of that great Apostle who loved to hang......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week es have loot bun reserved for room in. other forms.] In "Bell's Miniature Series of Great Writers" (G. Bell and Sons, 1s.......

Mrs. Belfort's Stratagem. By Thomas Cobb. (eveleigh Nash...

6s.)—Mrs. Belfort's Stratagem, if not equal to Mr. Cobb's first books, is a great improvement on those which he has given to the public lately. There is a distinct touch of......

Literary Influence In British History. By The Hon. A. S.

G. Canning. (T. Fisher Unwin. Is. ad. net.)—This is a revision of a work published some time ago. Some corrections, it seems to- ns, yet remain to be made. "John Wickliffe [why......

Capricious Caroline. By E. Maria Albanesi. (methuen And...

novel of "society" has several points which differen- tiate it agreeably from most of its contemporaries, and for which the reader who wants to be amused without his intellect......

Church A Long- Way In The Rear." The Scholars Are

not much interested in missions ; the friends of missions view the scholars with suspicion. This is the situation to which Dr. Horton addresses himself. He shows that the......

Current Literat (ire.

The Dictionary of the Bible. Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Assisted by John A. Selbie, D.D. Extra Volume. (T. and T. Clark. 28s.)—This supplementary volume contains two kinds......