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Oxford Historical Portraits. With Introduction by Lionel Cast, ,M.V.O. (Clarendon Press. 75. 6d. net.)—This is the catalogue of the second Loan Collection exhibited at Oxford in......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice su . ch Books of the week as ham not been ,reserved for veroiew in other forms.] The Hebrew Prophets. - By Loring W. Batten. (Methuen and Co. 3s.......

Our Colonial Cousins. By W. Vere Mingard. (t. C. And

E. C. Jack. is. 6d.)—This is one of Messrs. Jack's excellent series of 'School Books," occupying a place in the special division of "Round the World : Geographical Readers." The......

Some Famous Women Of Wit And Beauty.

CURRENT LITERATURE. Some Famous Women of Wit and Beauty. By John Fyvie. (A. Constable and Co. 12s. 6d. net.) — Six of these eight papers tire reprints from the Quarterly Review,......

Abbotsford. Painted By W. Smith, Jun. Described By W. S.

Crockett. (A. and C. Black. 7s. 6d. net.)—This is one of the very attractive "Series of Beautiful Books." Mr. Smith gives us twenty bright pictures of Abbotsford, and as the......

English Local Government. By Percy Ashley, M.a. (t. C. And

E. C. Jack. ls.)—Professor Ashley puts the case very neatly when, comparing English and Continental methods of local government, he writes : "Local government in England is lay......

Surrey Unionist Free Trade Association.

Surrey Unionist Free Trade Association : a . Selection Reprinted from Speeches Delivered in Surrey. (A. C. Curtis, Guildford. 6d.)—This pamphlet shows the vigour with which the......