The Carnegie Institute At Pittsburg, Pa. — Twelve Years...
Carnegie founded a library for Pittsburg. He afterwards enlarged the foundation by a department of fine arts and a museum. To these objects he devoted the sum of £3,620,000. In......
Naw Editions.-a Treasury Of English Literature, Arranged...
Warren (A. Constable and Co.), published in 1906, is being reissued in the convenient shape of six volumes. Two of these (ls. not each) are now before us : (1) " Old English :......
Quarterly Statement Of The Palestine Exploration Fund....
Street, W. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. R. A. Stewart Macalister continues his report on the Gezir excavations. His last find, a tunnel of very great proportions, is one of some importance. The......
The Bible In The Pall Light Of Modern Science, By
W. Woods Smyth (Simpkin and Marshall, ls. 6d. net), is a short book, which any fairly rapid reader may finish in half-an-hour. It is by a doctor, a Fellow of the Medical......
Through The Mutiny. By The Late Colonel Thomas Nicholls...
(Gibbings and Co. Is. 6d.)—T. N. Walker went out as a Cadet in the Honourable East India Company's Army in 1854, was sent to Benares to do duty with the 67th Bengal Native......
The Age Of Mahogany. By Percy Macquoid. (lawrence And...
42s. net.)—This is part of Mr. Macquoid's great "History of English Furniture." Mahogany began, ho tells us, to supersede walnut and oak, less fashionable in those days than......
Williamsburg, The Old Colonial Capital. By Lyon Gardiner...
(Whittet and Shepperson, Richmond, Va.)- Williamsburg, so called from the "Deliverer," was first known as the Middle Plantation. It received its present name in 1698; in 1790 it......
The Negro Races. By Jerome Dowd. Vol. I. (macmillan And
Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—This volume is divided into two sections. In the first of these we have the " Negritos " (Pygmies, Bushmen, and Hottentots), in the second the " Nigritians "......
The English Catalogue Of Books. (sampson Low, Marston,...
6s. net.)—" This year (1907)," we are informed in the note which precedes the catalogue, "has been by far the busiest in the annals of English publishing." The total number of......
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