The Industrial Competition Of Asia.*
THE chief argument that is brought forward by bimetallists in favour of their monetary system is the present state of commerce between this country and India. They urge that the......
The Death - Duties : A Handbook. By Sydney Burton, M.p., And
G. S. Barnes. (John Murray.)—This is a very good little guide to the maze of the Death-duties, put together in Mr. Buxton's usually succinct and exact manner. The most......
Glimpses Of Eastern Cities. By Andrew Russell. M.a....
Co.)—Not the least remarkable thing about this volume is the occasion which brought about its production. " These lec- tures," says Mr. Russell in his brief preface, "are the......
The Lives And Times Of The Minor Prophets. By The
Yen. Archdeacon Farrar, D.D. (Nisbet and Co.)—Archdeacon Farrar has brought to the composition of this book the learning, the felicity of illustration, and the width of sympathy......
An Australian Ramble. By J. Ewing Ritchie. (t. Fisher...
—It is rather difficult to know what the author is, in spite of his alternative name of " Christopher Crayon." But if " Christopher Crayon" is a nom - de - plume, it is not to......
Among The Selkirk Glaciers. By William Spottiswood Green....
Co.)—This book is a disappointment. The account of Mr. Green's almost-ascent of Mount Cook and his ex- ploration of the New Zealand Alps, was as good a piece of moun- taineering......
Boy : Word-sketches Of A Child's Life. By Helen Milman.
(Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—This is a story written on lines some- what resembling those of "Misunderstood." " Boy " is an enfant incompris, if we take that phrase without the......
Current Literature.
Melia's Magazine for August, a periodical which seems to be the organ, so to speak, of a grocer, contains, in a series entitled " Our Portrait Gallery," the likeness of Dinah......
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