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A Sketch Of The New Zealand War. By Morgan S.

Grace, C.M.G. (Horace Marshall and Son. 3s. 6d. net.)—The Hon. Morgan Grace went out in 1960 as a medical officer to the British troops. After taking an active share in the......

A New Edition (the Sixth) Of Dr. Henry Van Dyke's

Gospel for an Age of Doubt (6s.) is issued by Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton. When it first appeared, three years ago, it was welcomed very heartily by the evangelical world as an......

A History Of English Dramatic Literature. By A. W. Ward.

3 vols. (Macmillan and Co. 36s.)—The first edition of this elaborate history, issued nearly a quarter of a century ago, has long proved itself an indispensable book of reference......

The Bases Of The Mystic Knowledge. By E. Recejac. (began

Paul, Trench, and Co. 6s.)—This careful translation of a recent French metaphysical treatise affords yet another illustration of the widespread European reaction against......

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......

The Life Of William Malcepeace Thackeray. By Lewis...

25 Illustrations and Portraits. 2 vols. (Hutchinson and Co. 32s.) —Mr. Melville is of opinion that Thackeray's wish to be spared a biography was not serious. What Thackemy......

The Obvious Criticism Of Mr. Maurice Baring's Hildesheies...

is that it is a tour de force, and for once the obvious criticism is also just,—Mr. Baring's Pastiches is a tour &force. , We know not which is the more remarkable, the skill......

Claude Bernard. By Michael Foster. (t. Fisher Ijnwin. 3s....

this excellent little volume of the "Masters of Medicine Series," Sir Michael Foster pays his profound tribute of scientific respect to one of the most eminent of French......