15 DECEMBER 1906, Page 24
We have received Vols. III. and IV., "Con—Ho," of The
Modern Cydopaedies, Edited by Charles Annandale, LL.D. (The Gresham Publishing Company, Os. net each vol.) It is a new edition, and brought up to date, a thing easier to do in a work of moderate compass than where there is of necessity a slow publication. This is to be completed, we presume, in eight volumes. Of course, the reader has to be content with brief notices. Can any one whose memory goes back sixty years imagine that Francia of Paraguay should be dismissed in some dozen lines ?