The Next Naval War. By Captain Eardley-wilmot, R.n. (c....
Eardley-Wilmot is an expert in naval matters, and it is interesting to read his predictions, put into the historical tense, of what will happen in 1895, when France declares war......
Greece : Her Present Condition And Recent Progress. By James
Samuelson. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—Greece owes now about 430,000,000. About X10,000,000 has been borrowed since 1881, but only about X6,000,000 actually received by the......
Various Little Handbooks Which We May Commend To The Notice
of those who are interested in their various subjects are :—The Amateur Telescopist's Handbook. By Frank M. Gibson. (Long- mans.)—Dr. Gibson is one of the American observers who......
In The Series Of " Social Questions Of To-day "
(Methuen and Co.), we have Trusts, Pools, and Corners, by J. Stephens Jeans. Mr. J. S. Jeans assumes an independent attitude with regard to the questions which he treats. He......
The Bible By Modern Light. By Cunningham Geikie, D.d....
— Dr. Cunningham Geikie's well-known and highly valued work which bears the title of "Hours with the Bible" appears again under his name, but with considerable change and......
Shakespeare For Recitation. By The Late John Millard....
Evelyn Millard. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Mr. Millard was for many years Elocution Master at the City of London School. Here the annual " speech-day " recitations are largely,......
A Standard Work, Well Known To The Medical Profession,...
in a " new edition, revised throughout and enlarged." This is A Dictionary of Medicine. Edited by Richard Quain, Bart., M.D., assisted by Frederick Thomas Roberts and S.......
Growing Children, By Thomas William Nunn (kogan Paul,...
Co.), is a little volume the title of which sufficiently indicates its purpose. It may be read with profit by mothers and others who have children in their charge.—With this may......
Manchester College, Oxford, 1893. (longmans.)—manchester...
Academy of Warrington and other academies of less renown. It began its work at Manchester in 1786, was removed to York in 1803. then back to Manchester, and to London in 1853.......
Statesmen, Past And Present (cassell And Co.), Is A Reprint
of between thirty and forty articles which originally appeared in the Daily News. It may be imagined, therefore, how the portraits are coloured. That they should be not......
Our Ocean Railways. By A. Fraser Macdonald. (chapman And
all.)—There is always a certain amount of fascination about the history of the great steamships and their racing, but this is not the first account of the subject, and there is......
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