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The Crisis Of Being. By David Thomas, D.d. (jackson,...

and Hodder.)—With this name the author labels six lectures on what he calls religions Decision. It is to be hoped that the Stockwell Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association......

Life In The Far East.*

IT is curious to see what excuses authors offer for having com- mitted themselves to book-making. Now it is "on the urgent desire of friends," then, again, to "employ usefully......

Current Literature.

Manual of Elementary Geography. By J. S. Laurie. (Thomas Murby.) —Another of this indefatigable author's excellent manuals for village schools. Nothing can make such a work......