15 DECEMBER 1906, page 24

We Have Received The English Catalogue Of Books, Vol. Vii.,

1901-1905 (Publisher's Circular C ffice, ..£.3 13s. 6d. net), a catalogue with price, size, /cc., of "Books issued in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" during the......

We Welcome The Appearance Of The Eighth Half-yearly...

1906) of The World's Work and Play, Edited by Sir Henry Norman, M.P. (W. Heinemann, 7s. 61 net, an "Illus. trated Magazine of National Effieieney and Social Progress."......

The Confectioners. By William Caine And John Fairbairn....

Arrowsmith, Bristol. 3s. 6d.)—This is a highly humorous extravaganza in which the authors project us, so to speak, into a future when adulteration, substitution, and the sham......

Who's Who, 1907. (a. And C. Black. 10s. Net.)—the Number

of distinguished persons seems steadily to increase. This, the volume for 1907, contains twenty-one thousand biographies. Every one, it will be remembered, tells his own story.......

We Have Received Vols. Iii. And Iv., "con—ho," Of The

Modern Cydopaedies, Edited by Charles Annandale, LL.D. (The Gresham Publishing Company, Os. net each vol.) It is a new edition, and brought up to date, a thing easier to do in a......

We Have Received An Illustrated Edition Of One Of Miss

L. M. Alcott's books. This is the ROSE in Bloom (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., 6s.) The illustrations are by Harriet Roosevelt Richards. The Rose in Bloom first appeared in......