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A History Of The Presidency. By Edward Stanwood, Litt.d....

Miffiin, and Co., Boston. $2•50.)—We are sorry Dr. Stanwood has given this otherwise excellent book the title it bears. No American has yet achieved the end of writing an......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this Heading we notice such Books of the week as have not ban reserved•for review in other forms.] The Theory of a Leisured Class. By Thorstein Verblen. (Macmillan and......

A History Of Greece. By George Willis Botsford, Ph.d. (mac-

millan and Co. 6s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Botsford is a teacher at Harvard, and has taken pains to make his book as practically useful as possible. In itself it is not to be preferred to......

Alphonse Daudet. By His Son, Leon Daudet. Translated By...

de Kay. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. Ls.)—This book is not a " Life," as described, apparently by the binder, but a study of character. It is not always easily intelligible,......

Religio Medici. By Sir Thomas Browne. (g. Bell And Sons.

10s. 6d.)—It was a good idea to issue the 1?eligiv Medici in a stately quarto ; that is to say, if books are to have their deserts. We have examined the text carefully without......

Henry . Robert Reynolds, D.d. : His Life And Letters. Edited

by his Sisters. (Hodder and Stoughton. 9s.)—The greater part of Dr. Reynolds's working life was spent in the Presidency of Cheshunt College. He went there in 1860, when he was......

Letters To His Son On Religion. By Roundell, First Earl

of Selborne. (Macmillan and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Lord Selborne, it would appear, wrote a small treatise on Christian Apologetics in the shape of letters to his son, when a young man at......