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Chris Of All Kinds. By S. Baring-gould. (methuen And Co.

6s.)—Mr. Baring-Gould is effective in this story, as, indeed, he never fails to be in whatever he may see fit to write. It is not difficult to point out faults. The chief of......

C Ltrrent Literat Ure.

A 'ITMELY BOOK. The Free - Trade Movement and its Results. By G. Armitage- Smith, M.A., Principal of the Birkbeck College. Second Edition. (Mackie and Son. 2s. 6d.)—This is an......

Free-trade And The Manchester School.

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Sweet "doll" Of Haddon Hall. By J. E. Muddock. (j.

Long. 6s.)—Mr. Muddock has not succeeded in making the personages of his story live. They appear on the stage, and walk about clothed in correct historical costume, but somehow......

The Countess, And The King's Diary. By Percy White....

Nash. 6s.)—The second of these stories is a most drearily sad production, and the reader sees no particular reason why the history of so unhappy a man as Archibald Seaton should......

Buddhist India. By T. W. Rhys Davids, Ll.d. (t. Fisher

Unwin. 5s.)—Professor Rhys Davids undertakes in this volume to tell the story of India—i.e., of India in the flourishing period of Buddhism—from the Buddhist, as distinguished......