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Buds And Stipules. By Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.p. With

340 Illustrations and 4 Coloured Plates. (Regan Paul, Trench, and Co. Gs.) — This is another of those labours of love which have made its author's name famous, and upon the like......

Spinifez And Sand. By The Hon. David W. Carnegie. (c.

Arthur Pearson. 21s.)—" In the Australian bush," says Mr. Carnegie, "the traveller has only Nature to war against," Nature's most formidable weapon being thirst. Water is the......

Greek Sculpture, With Story And Song. By Albinia Wherry. (j.

M. Dent and Co.)—This is a very pleasant, readable book, not too technical for the ordinary reader, but not wanting in solidity. Mrs. Wherry has wisely limited her list of......

War Memories Of An Army Chapiain. By H. Clay Trumbull.

(C. Scribner's Sons, New York.)—There have been few books in the very considerable literature of the American Civil War more read- able than this. Mr. Trumbull was Chaplain to......

Grammar Of New Testament Greek. By Friedrich Blass,...

by Henry St. John Thackeray, M.A. (Macmillan and Co. 14s. net.)—Hellenistic Greek is, in the author's opinion, " 9. pure language which is governed by regular laws of its own."......

Poems Of Catalina. Selected And Edited By H. V. Macnaghten

and A. B. Ramsay. (Duckworth and Co. 2s. 6d.)—The Story of Cataus. By H. V. Macnaghten. (Same publishers. 2s. 6c1.) —We have no fault to find with the exegetical portion of......