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Old Cambridge. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson. (mace...

tis.) — This is a very pleasant, chatty, and not too literary volume on an American literary centre of the past rather than the present. It leads off very appropriately and......

Two Women In The Klondyke. By Mary E. Hitchcock. (g.

P. Putnam's Sons. 12s. 6d.) —Two ladies of good position in the United States, Mrs. Hitchcock, who writes the story, and Miss Van Buren, great-niece of the President of that......

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......

Roxburgh, Selkirk, And Peebles. By Sir George Douglas,...

75. 6d.)—This is an interesting and valuable addi- tion to that excellent series of "County Histories of Scotland" now being published by Messrs. Blackwood, and upon which it......

. A Short History Of English Literature. By George...

(Macmillan and Co. 8s. 6d.)—We cannot, of course, undertake to review the judgments which Professor Saintsbury passes on some hundreds of authors, from Caeduion down to......

The Apostle Of The Ardennes. By Lady Lindsay. (kegan Paul,

Trench, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Hubert the Hunter, Prince of the Ariennes, determines to follow the chase even on Good Friday. Following a milk-white hind into the recesses of the......

We Give A Warm Welcome To The First Volume Of

the Home Counties Magazine, edited by W. J. 'Hardy, F.S.A. (F. E. Robinson and Co., 10s. net). It is to be "devoted to • the topography of London, Middlesex, Essex, Herts,......

Among The Celestials. By Captain F. Younghusband. (john...

an abridgment of the author's "Hears of a Continent," and describes a journey made about thirteen years ago. It is peculiarly welcome now, for the Chinese and their cousins the......

Thoughts In Many Minds On Animal Life. Gathered By H.

C. F. (Women's Printing Society, Whitcomb Street. 2s.)—This little volume deserves a welcome both for intention and execution. "H. C. F." has githered from many writers,......