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Joanna Of Naples. By St. Clair Baddeley. (heinemann.)—...

Clair Baddeley is, unless we mistake, a minor poet. If this is the case, it is a pity that, having an outlet for his poetical faculty, he does not resolutely keep it from......

Far Cathay And Further India. By Major-general A. Buxton...

(Hurst and Blackett.)—General MacMahon begins by some remarks on the political situation of Burmah as it con- cerns England and China. He then goes back to some his- torical......

In Messrs. Gale And Polden's "military Series" We Have :-

Handbook to the Martini-Henry Rite; Handbook to the Lee-Mitford Rifle ; Physical Drill, cl^c., Made Easy, by William Gordon ; and Changes in Revised Infantry Drill, by the same......

The Sportsman And Tourist's Guide To Scotland. Edited By J.

Watson-Lyall. (118 Pall Mall.)—This is the " twenty-first year of publication," and we welcome an old acquaintance. It has, we observe, a new feature, which should be of the......

Heather And Snow. By George Macdonald. 2 Vols. (chatto And

Windus.)—All the figures in Dr. George Macdonald's story stand out with admirable distinctness on his canvas. Kirsty Barclay, whom we may call the heroine, is a specially fine......

„essex : Highways, Byways, And Waterways. Second Series....

illustrated by C. R. B. Barrett. (Lawrence and Bullen.)— " In the first series," writes Mr. Barrett, " I dealt mainly with boroughs and small towns. Now I go among the villages......