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Foscari," "cain," "heaven And Earth," "werner," "the De-...

and" The Island." Mr. Coleridge thinks that these find few readers nowadays. Probably he is right. Whether this should be is another matter. Might we not say that in literature......

We Have, Received Vols. V. And 'vi. Of Dyer's History

of Modern Europe, Revised and Continued to the End of the Nineteenth Century by Arthur Hassell, MA. (George Bell and Sons, Cs. net per vol.) Vol. V. contains the period 1789 -......

Shakespeare In Prose And Verse. By Lois Grosvenor...

and Co. 4s. 6d. net.)—This volume can scarcely be said to come into competition with the work of Charles and Mary Lamb. Perhaps we may say that it is written with a more......

The Discovery Of The Future. By H. G. Wells. (t.

Fisher Unwin. 2s.)—We feel disposed to be content with saying that this "Discourse Delivered to the Royal Institution" some three weeks ago is worth reading, as indeed is all......

The First Map Containing The Name "america." By Basil H.

Soulsby. (The Geographical Journai, February.)--Mr. Soulsby gives in this interesting pamphlet a rdsume of a paper from the pen of Dr. F. V. Wieser in which the discovery of a......

Another Book On Gardening, Intended For The "upper Ten"...

gardeners, is The Culture of Greenhouse Orchids, by Frederic Boyle, supervised by Joseph Godseff (Chapman and Hall, 83. net). No man has a better right to speak of orchids than......