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Historical And Political Addresses, 1883 - 1897. By John...

M.P. (Sealy, Bryers, and Walker, Dublin ; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 20s.)—Even the most fervid Celtic oratory is rarely effective served up in cold type, and long after the......

The Making Of A Dairy : "wheat Out Of Lilies,"

and other Studies in Plant-Life and Evolution. A Popular Introduction to Botany. By Eleanor Hughes-Gibb. (Griffin and Co.)—The short essays comprised in this little volume are......

A Student's Text - Book Of Zoology. By Adam Sedgwick,...

Vol. I. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 18s.)—When Professor Sedgwick commenced this work he had intended simply to make it a new edition of Claus's " Lehrbuch," revised and brought......

William Stokes : His Life And Work (1804-1878). By His

Son, William Stokes, Surgeon-in-Ordinary to the Queen in Ireland. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Without rising to the eminence of the great Englishmen whose lives have preceded his in the......

The Revised Version Of The Holy Bible, With References....

bridge University Press.)--The marginal references to the New Testament were put together by a Committee of the Revision Com- pany, and have been since revised and increased.......

George Murdoch. By Gabriel Setoun. (sands And Co.)— There Is

some power in this story, but a want of restraint and a distinct tendency to exaggerate. George's uncle is too prepos- terously villainous, too outrageously hypocritical, to ix:......