The Problem Of Boy - Work. By The Rev. Spencer J. Gibb.
(Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co. 13. 6d.)—The probleM briefly put is this,—how to organise the labour of London boys. They leave school, take up one of the jobs which are ready......
In The "told To The Children" Series (t. C. And
E. C. Jack, ls. 6d. net) we have Stories from the Odyssey, by Jeanie Lang. This is sufficiently well done; but Miss Lang cannot have found in the Iliad that of the heroes who......
Roman Provincial Administration. By W. T. Arnold. Revised...
E. S. Shuckburgh. (B. H. Blackwell, Oxford. 6s. net.)— Mr. Arnold won the Arnold Prize with this essay in 1879. For the seventeen years following that date he was employed on......
Two Volumes Of Expositions Of Holy Scripture, By...
D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton, 7s. 6d. per vol.), are before us. We - have expressed - our opinion about the great value of this work more than once, and need not repeat it. The......
Words Of Strength And Wisdom.. By.bishop Steere. ....
Mission to Central Africa. ls. 6d. net.)—There are without doubt many admirable things in this volume, but the selection might have been more judiciously made. " What Temperance......
The Book Of Gilly. By Emily Lawless. (smith, Elder, And
Co. 6s. 6d. net.)—" Gilly's" father, when going out to enter upon a government in Southern India, determined, against the will of his somewhat conventional wife, to send his son......
Britain's Roll Of Glory. By D. H. Parry. (cassell And
Co. 6s.)—This is the record of the " Victoria Cross," a decoration which this year reaches its jubilee. It has been given to five 'hundred and twenty-tivo persons, of whom one......
A Treasury Of English Literature. Selected And Arranged...
M. Warren. (A. Constable and Co. 7s. ed. net.)—This volume is intended to be a companion to Mr. Stopford Brooke's "Primer of English Literature," and it comes with a warm com-......
The York Health And Honsing Reform Association (34...
have juit published a very useful chart, entitled How to Spend a Shilling on Food to the Best Advantage. The Chart, which is published at 4s. per hundred and 39s. per......
Queen Anne. By Herbert Paul, M.p. (goupil And Co. £8
8s. and £3 3s.)—Mr. Paul's story of Queen Anne would be an attractive book in any case, but when his brilliant epigrams and -vigorously drawn sketches of men and events are set......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other Arms.] Walter Frank Raphael Weldon,1860-1906. (Cambridge Univer- sity Press.......
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