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Pons Asinorwm ; Or, Bridge For Beginners. By A. G.

Hulme- Beaman. (Methuen and Co. ls.)—The author hopes that his treatise will "spread the taste for Bridge." We do not wish him ill, but we hope that this object will not be......

A Full Account Of The Processes And Results In One

of the most astonishing among recent discoveries in science may be found in Liquid Air and the Liquefaction of Gases, by T. O'Conor Sloane, Ph.D. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)......

Ronald And I. By Alfred Pretor. (deighton And Bell, Cam-

bridge. 3s. 6d.)—A volume of clever sketches. Indeed, there is more than cleverness in them. There is feeling, often expressed with no little subtlety and skill, and plenty of......

Theology. —codex Purpureus Petropolitanus. By H. S....

University Press. 5s. net.)— The editor gives an interesting account of the various fragments of the MS.,—that marked in the Catalogue of Codices as "N." Of this fourty-five......

Mixon Veme.—imperia, And Other Prolusions In Verse. By...

(H. Young and Sons, Liverpool.)—Mr. Farrie's verse is above the average, especially in " The Happiest Lover," and some of his translations are ingenious. Here are the last two......

The Colonies And The Century. By The Hon. Sir J.

Robinson, K.C.M.G. (Macmillan and Co. 3s. net.)—This is an enlarged reprint of a paper read before the Royal Colonial Institute. The writer discusses various questions that......

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......

Florizel's Folly. By John Ashton. (chatto And Windus....

" Florizel," we may explain, is meant the Prince who afterwards became George IV., and by " Florizel's Folly" the Pavilion of Brighton. " Florizel" was not the first of his......

On The South African Frontier. By William Harvey Brown....

Low, Marston, and Co. 12s. 6d.)—Mr. Brown is a citizen of the United States, who went out as naturalist to an expedi- tion sent by the American Government to West Africa, and......

Grain-booxs.—of Holiday Guides We Have To Notice East...

by William J. Tate (Jerrold and Sons, 3s. 6d.) Mr. Tate tells us how we may find nuts, blackberries, and mush- rooms, and informs us what sport we may have in the way of sea-......