The History Of Egypt. By J. P. Mahaffy. (methuen And
Co. 6s.) —Professor Mahaffy has had a somewhat thankless task in telling the story of the Ptolemies. There was a certain mediocrity about the dynasty even when it was at its......
Sermons. By Charles Parsons Reichel, D.d., Sometime...
With a Memoir by his Son, H. R. Reichel. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—Dr. Reichel held the See of Meath but for a short time, being appointed in 1885, and dying in 1894. Of his work......
Life And Nature In The English Lakes. By The Rev.
H. D. Rawnsley. (Maclehose and Sons, Glasgow. 58.)—Canon Rawnsley describes various natural scenes, landscapes, and the life which haunts them, as in the paper, " After the......
Roman Life Under The Cmsars. By Emile Thomas. (t. Fisher
Unwin. 7s. 6d.)—M. Thomas is quite right in thinking that such books as " Gallus " have had their day. They had "a monstrous quantity of sack to a ha'porth of bread." The tale......
Current Literature.
SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Reminiscences of a Professional Politician. By......
Japan In Transition. By J. Stafford Ransome. (harper And...
16s.)—Mr. Ransoms gives many useful hints to the traveller in Japan,—how he should manage affairs at an hotel, where the manners and customs are decidedly embarrassing ; what......
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