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We Have Received Four Volumes Of " Illustrated Guide-books "

(Ward, Lock, and Co., ls. each), all of them well-established in public favour, to judge from the number of editions through which they have passed, and therefore needing but......

My Australian Girlhood. By Mrs. Campbell Praed. (t....

6s. net.)—Mrs. Campbell Praed gives us here a succes- sion of striking pictures. For some she is indebted to her own experience ; some she takes from family records; there is,......

The Northern Tribes Of Central Australia. By Baldwin...

and F. J. Gillen. (Macmillan and Co. 21s. net.)—This book ought to have received such notice as we are able to give to it some time ago. We are unwilling to pass over with a few......

British, Salt Water Fishes. By F. G. Aflalo. (hutchinson And

Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—This is a volume (the fifth, as we gather from the advertisement) of the " Woburn Library of Natural History," appearing under the general editorship of the......

The Ancestor. Edited By Oswald Barron, F.s.a. Number X. (a.

Constable and Co. 5s. net.)—This "Quarterly Review of County and Family History, Heraldry, and Antiquities" con- tinues to perform its function, definable as the scientific......

The Natural History Of Some Common Animals. By Oswald H.

Latter. (Cambridge University Press. 5s. net.)—Our notice of this volume is limited, for obvious reasons, to its popular aspect. It deals with subjects with which we all have......

National Humour. By David Macrae. (alex. Gardner,...

Macrae has collected into a volume sundry publica- tions treating of the humour of certain peoples or sections of peoples, adding a new chapter on Welsh humour, and enriching......

An Introductory History Of England. By C. R. L. Fletcher.

(John Murray. 7s. 6d.)—The " uncomplimentary young gentle- men," who, Mr. Fletcher explains, were relatives of his own, were surely a little unreasonable in complaining that......