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Booms RECE1VED.—The Evolution of the Idea of God. By Grant

Allen. (Grant Richards.)—Practical Idealism. By William Delvitt Hyde. (Macmillan and Co.)—The Origin and Growth of Plato's Logos. By Wincenty Lutoslawski. (Longmans and Co.)—Great Teachers. By Joseph Forster. (George Redway.) —Social Forces in German Literature. By Kuno Francke, Ph.D. (H. Holt, New York.)—American Contributions to Civilisa- tion, and other Essays. By Charles William Eliot, LL.D. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—The Scholar and the State. By Henry Codman Porter, D.D. (Same publisher.)--The Return of Chaos. By Charles Weeld Salter. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)— Rapara; or, The Rights of the Individual in the State. By Archibald Forsyth. (Same publishers.)—The Ancient Wisdom. By Annie Besant. (Theosophical Publishing Company.)—Notes on the Margins. By Clifford Harrison. (G. Redway.)—Marchesi and Music. By Mathilde Marchesi. (Harper Brothers, New York.) —Life in Afrikancler Land as Viewed by an Afrikander. By Cic,s. (Digby, Long, and Co.)—Stray Military Papers. By Lieutenant-Colonel H. W. L. Hime. (Longmans and Co.)— From Jungle to Java. By Arthur Keyser. (Roxburghe Press.) —Journal of an Italian Tour. By Colonel S. B. Beveridge. (Shaw and Co.)—The Stray Notes of a Wayfarer. (Roxburgh*, Press.)—Hawthorne's First Diary. Edited by Samuel T. Pickard. (Kegan Paul, Trenoh, and Co.)—The Universal Cambist. By John Henry Norman. (Effingham Wilson.)— American Lands and Letters. By Donald G. Mitchell. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—This is an account of a number of interesting literary personalities, beginning with the earliest efforts at writing in the New England settlements, and bringing the reader down to William Cullen Bryant —Greek Vases. By Susan Horner. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co )—An account of the art of vase- painting, with some special notices of examples in the Louvre and in the British Museum.—Our Island Home, by G. H. F. Nye (Bemrose and Sons), begins with Cassar's description of England and carries us down to some of the most recent developments of English life.—Football. By Arthur Budd, C. B. Fry, T. A. Cook, and _B. F. Robinson. (Lawrence and Bullen )—Reprinted, with additions and alterations, from Part VII. of "The Encycloptedits of Sport."—Practica/ Forestry. By Charles E. Curtis. (Crosby Lockwood and Son.)—Burdett's Official Nursing Directory, 1898. By Sir Henry Burdett, K.C.B. (Scientific Press.) — Army Serves Corps Duties. By Lieutenant Colonel W. D. Ward, C.B. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)--A Dictionary of Sea Terms, for the Use of Yachtsmen, Amateur Boatmen, and Beginners. By A. Ansted. (L. Upcott Gill.)—Agricultural Chemistry. By R. H. Adie, M.A., and T. B. Ward, M.A. 2 vols. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The Holy Bible, in the " Eversley Series," with Introduction by J. W. Mackail, Vol. III. 1 Kings to Esther (Macmillan and Co.) The plan of the work was de- scribed and criticised in the Spectator of November 20th.—The Book of Common Prayer, with Historical Notes. Edited by the Rev. James Cornford. (Eyre and Spottiswoode.)—The Ito2ic Dialects. Edited, with a Grammar and Glossary, by R. S. Conway. (Cambridge University Press.) — Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605-1620. 2 Books. Edited, with Notes and Introduction, by C. C. A. Gosch. (For the Hakluyt Society.)—Outlines of Elementary Economics. By Herbert J. Davenport. (Macmillan and Co.)—Darwin and after Darwin. By the late George John Romanee, M.A. III. Post-Darwinian Questions ; Isolation and Physiological Selection. (Longmans and Co.)—Sporting and Athletic Records. By H. Morgan-Brown. (Methuen and Co.)-- The Reliquary and Illustrated Archmologist, 1897. Edited by J. Homily Allen. (Bemrose and Son.)