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Artistic And Scientific Taxidermy And Modelling. By...

and C. Black.)—Mr. Montagu Browne includes in this handsome book chapters on the modelling of fish, flowering rushes, flowers, and all the accessories to the proper mounting of......

Pictures Of People. By Charles Dana Gibson. (john Lane.)—...

is a fresh series of sketches in pen-and-ink by a well-known American hand. Besides pictures of society in America and England there are some studies in Parisian cafés - chant......

Natural History Of Australia. By F. G. Aflalo. (macmillan...

Co.)—This is a most readable and entertaining zoology of Australia. It is not in the least dry, and it contains the Australian fauna in proper classification, with a variety of......

Musa Piscatrix. By John Buchan. (j. Lane.)—mr. Buchan...

here some three-score pieces concerned, more or less, with fishing and fishermen. John Dennys heads the list; after him come Wotton, C. Cotton, Gay, and others, and conspicuous......

Illustrated Bible Treasury. Edited By William Wright,...

Sons.)—Dr. Wright, with the help of a company of able zontributors, among whom may be mentioned Sir Charles Wilson, Professors Sayce, Marcus Dods, G. Adam Smith, T. G. Bonney,......

Moorland Idylls. By Grant Allen. (chatto And Windus.)—we...

glad to meet Mr. Grant Allen on the moor or the meadow or in the wood. We do not admire him as a social reformer, but as an observer he is excellent. He has a keen eye and a......

The Traditional Text Of The Holy Gospels Vindicated And...

By the late J. W. Burgon. Arranged, completed, and edited by Edward Miller. (G. Bell and Sons.)—We have no intention of criticising this work. Such a task would be quite......

History Of Rome In The Middle Ages. By Ferdinand...

Translated by Annie Hamilton. Vol. IV., Parts I. and II. (G. Belt and Sons.)—Herr Gregorovins carries on in this volume, divided, for convenience' sake, into two parts, the......