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THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW. In the Independent Review for December "A Liberal" writes of the possibilities of "an educational Concordat." He divides religions education in schools......
Novels.
THE AMBASSADORS.* IT should be hardly necessary to offer an apology for delay in noticing Mr. Henry James's new novel. That ihgehious writer in his latter phase does nOt lend......
Gift-books.
Good Words. (IsbistA3r and Co. 7s. Od.)—The title of Mr. S. R. Crockett's romance, the serial of this year's Good Words, is cer- tainly a taking one. "The Adventurer in Spain"......
The Sunday Magazine. (isbister And Co. Is. 6d.) — The...
the Barriers," which runs through this year's volume is doubly interesting by reason of the author's wish to remain anony- mous till the last. The biography of Mr. Spurgeon is......
The Haunted Ship. By Robert Leighton. (andrew Melrose....
has again given us a most excellent story of adventure, which has for its characters and scenery Devonshire men and the Devonshire coast. We have remarked before that he does......
A Gay Charmer. By L. T. Meade. (w. And R.
Chambers. 6s.) —Shirley Kendal comes to the country home where Julia Cairns is the only child. She is beautiful, lively, and accomplished, and she makee Julia fearfully jealous.......
Karen: A Swedish Idyll. By Frances H. Wood. (j. Blackwood
and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Miss Wood's story is interesting in itself, and is made the occasion in the writer's hands of some very curious pictures of life in rural Sweden. Karen,......
The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come. By John Fox, Jun.
(A. Constable and Co. 6s.)—Readers who are deterred by the not very attractive title from reading this book will miss a very good novel. It must be confessed, however, inasmuch......