Quarter Sessions Records Of Somersetshire. Edited By The...
H. Bates Harbin. (Somerset Record Society.)—The period covered by these records is from Jan. 1, 1625—Jan., 1628-29, and we get, as we read them, some interesting glimpses of the......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other Jonas.] Counsels to Nurses. By Edward King, D.D., late Bishop of Lincoln. (N.......
Popular Garden Flowers. By Walter P. Wright. (grant...
net.)—Mr. Wright, having told us about gardens, as in "The Perfect Garden," now sets forth in detail what flowers we ought to put in them. He deals with many kinds, beginning......
An Easy Seleetionfrons Cicero's Correspondence. Edited By...
M.A. (Cambridge University Press. is. 6d.)—The editor gives us in his introduction a short sketch of Cicero's life and notices of his correspondence. The letters used cover a......
Readable Novels. —the Hand Of Diane. By Percy Hartley....
Unwin. 6s.)—" Diane" is the famous Diane de Poitiers—or some one else. This is a lively story, and it was not necessary to set it off with a French oath on every page.—......
Electricity In The Service Of Man. By P. Idallineux Wahnsey,
D.Sc. VoL I. (Cassell and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—This first volume of what is to be a " Popular and Practical Treatise on the Applica- tions of Electricity to Modern Life " deals......
The House Of Hohenzollern. By C. A. Brayley -hodgetts....
and Co. 15s. net.)—Mr. Brayley-Hodgetta tells the story of the Prussian rulers from the Great Elector down to the present Kaiser. The Elector, however, is dealt with in the......
Orchids For Everyone. By C. H. Curtis. (j. M. Dent
and Son. ls. net.)—" For Everyone" must be understood with limita- tions. You cannot grow orchids on a hundred a year; that sum must be multiplied, one might say, ten times......
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