The City Of The Caliphs. By Eustace A. Reynolds-ball, B.a.,
F.R.G.S. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d.)—A nice-looking book with rough edges, artistically bound, and effectively illustrated, but rather a budget of odds and ends, a mosaic of......
The Burns Memorial Catalogue. (william Hodge And Co. And T.
B. Annan and Co., Glasgow. £3 3s.)—This singularly well-got- tip, beautifully printed, and admirably illustrated volume is a memorial of the very successful Burns Exhibition......
The Magic Of The Horse-shoe: With Other Folk-lore Notes. By
Robert Means Lawrence, M.D. (Gay and Bird. 7s. 6d.)—It is well known to all of us that superstitions connected with the horse-shoe exist in most parts of the world, and have......
A Shuttle Of An Empire's Loom. By Harry Vandervell (william
Blackwood and Sons. Gs.)—There is a distinct need of such a book as this might have been—a plain record of a seaman's life on board a cargo-steamer of to-day—but we cannot......
Emeralds Chased In Gold. By John Dickson. (oliphant,...
and Ferrier. 4s.)—Under this perhaps too rhetorical title an enthusiastic and well-read Scotch antiquary gives an account of the curious little islands in the Firth of Forth,......
The Caliphate : Its .rise, Decline, And Fall. From Original
Sources. By Sir William Muir, K.C.S.I. Third edition. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 16s.)—The third edition of Sir William Muir's history of the Caliphate is simply a reproduction of......
Birds. By A. H. Evans, M.a. (macmillan And Co. 17a.)—
Several volumes of the " Cambridge Natural History " have already appeared, and they have been welcomed as valuable contributions to the modern literature of zoology. Mr.......
In The Niger Country. By Harold Bindloss. With 2 Maps.
(W. Blackwood and Sons. 12s. 6d.)—This is one of the best-written books that has been published about West Africa, and Mr. Bindloss tells several interesting stories very well.......
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