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C Urrent Literature.

REPORT OF THE HOUSING COMMITTEE OF THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Report of the Housing Committee of the City of Birmingham. (Percival Jones. 2s. 6d.)—In July last the Birmingham......

Men At Arms. By Major W. P. Drury. (chapman And

Hall. 3s. 6d.)—The latest work by the author of "The Peradventures of Private Pagett," like most of its predecessors, consists of short stories and sketches. As is usual with a......

Novels.

AMELIA AND THE DOCTOR.* MR. HORACE MITCHINSON is so well known to a wide circle • of readers as a writer on pastimes, sport, and natural history that his accomplishments in the......

A Book Of Cottages And Little Houses.

A Book of Cottages and Little Houses. By C. R. Ashbee, M.A. (B. T. Batsford. 12s. 6d. net.)—This well-produced book does not appear to be designed so much for the man who is......

Man And Maid. By E. Nesbit. (t. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—miss

Nesbit always writes with a facile and graceful pen, but her real forte is not iu short stories for grown-up people, but in stories for children. These tales, however, are all......

The Cattle Baron's Daughter. By Harold Bindloss. (john...

The Cattle Baron's Daughter Mr. Bindloss gives a most interesting account of the struggle in the Far West of America between the homesteaders and the ranchers. The homesteaders......