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A Pathetic Interest Attaches To How To Tie Flies For

Trout and grayling, by H. G. McClelland (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., es.) The author contributed under a pseudonym a series of articles on fly-tying to the Fishing Gazette.......

England In The Nineteenth Century. By C. W. Oman. (e.

Arnold. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Oman, whose " History of England " has had a deservedly great success, carries it to the present time in this volume. His book will be more than commonly......

Treology.—doubt And Faith. By E. J. Hardy, M.a. (t. Fisher

Unwin. 6s.)—Mr. Hardy, who attracted many readers by his "How to be Happy though Married," was appointed to deliver the Donnellan Lectures at Trinity College, Dublin. He has......

Of Technical Books On Various Subjects We Have To Mention

Optics, by A. S. Percival, M.B. (Macmillan and Co., 10s. net). Mr. Percival explains that he writes in the first place for students of ophthalmic medicine. It is obvious that......

Johnson Club Papers. By Various Hands. (t. Fisher Unwin.

Gd. net.)—It is only to be expected that these fifteen papers should be of varying merit. It could not be hoped that every contributor should write as well as Mr. Augustine......

Peaks And Pines. By J. A. Lees. (longmans And Co.

Os.)--. " Life would be tolerable but for its amusements," said an eminent sage, and Mr. Lees would be amusing but for his fun. He is a sportsman, though the account of the not......

Gift-books.—wars Of The 'nineties. By A. Hilliard...

Co. 7s. 6d.)—The last decade of the century has yet more than a year before it is completed, and here is a big volume of more than eight hundred pages taken up with the story of......