A Royal Rhetorician. Edited, With An Introduction, By...
Rait. (A. Constable. do. tid. net.)--In this volume we have the " Counterblast to TQbacco," a tractate very seldom read, though often quoted (it is but brief, about the length......
St. Jerome.' By Father Largent. Translated By Hester...
(Duckworth and Co. 3s.)—Father Largent has made avery interesting book out of the very ample material which the life of St. Jerome supplies. And he has had the advantage of......
The Farmstead. By Isaac Phillips Roberts. (macmillan And...
6d. net.)—This is a volume of " The Rural Science Series," and has for its subject "the making of the rural home, and the laying-out of the farm." It must be understood that the......
The Christ Of Cynewulf. Edited By Albert S. Cook. (ginn
and Co, Boston, U.S.A. Cs. 6d.)—The manuscript of the "Christ" is the glory of Exeter Cathedral, to which it was given by Bishop Leofric in 1046. The poem, if the three parts of......
The Age Of Johnson. By Thtsmas Seccombe. "handbooks Of...
Literature." (George Bell and Sons. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Seccombe has certainly done his best in this very interesting volume to dissipate the contempt (if contempt there be) for......
Excavations In Cyprus. By A. S. Murray, Ll.d., And A.
H. Smith, M.A., and H. B. Walters, MA. (British Museum.)— A bequest (by Miss Emma Tarnow Turner) enabled the Trustees to set these experts to work, and the result has been......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have saes been 'carved for review in other forms.] Annals of an East Anglian Bank. By W. H. Bidwell. (A. H. Goose,......
A Garner Of Saints. By Allen Hinds, M.a. (j. M.
Dent and Co. 3e. 6d.)—This is an alphabetically arranged account of the more famous saints and the emblems commonly employed in art. It begins, for instance, with St. Agatha,......
Every-day Life In South Africa. By E. E. K. Lowndes.
(S. We Partridge and Co. le. 6d.)—Miss Lowndes takes us back to the ante-war days. She went out for health's sake, and found a situation as a teacher, first in a Dutch family......
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