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Poems By John Clare. Selected And Introduced By Norman Gale.

(G. E. Over, Rugby. 3s. Gd. net.)—Mr. Gale's introduc- tion contains a biography of Clare,. a quite plain-epoken piece of writing, in which to attempt is made to gloss over the......

The Social Gospel. By The Rev. T. Rhondda. Williams. (lurid,

Humphries, and Co. ls. net.)—" Men," says Mr. 'Williams, "ought not to be wasting their life in getting a liveli- hood." We disagree; it is a goo , ' thing for men to be......

Hilda's Dia-y Of A Caps Housekeeper. By Hildagonda J....

(Chapman and Hall. 4s. 6d )—Here are no grave ques- tions of policy, no discussions of Briton a Boer. . Mrs.. Duckett was born at the Cape, and is herself half Dutch, having......

The Lady Poverty. Translated And Edited By Montgomery...

Murray. Ss.)—This is a very pleasing trans- lation of a religious allegory written in the thirteenth century. Its authorship is unknown, but it is evidently the work of an early......

Scnool-boolte.—the Aeneid Of Virgil, I. Edited By H. B....

B.A. (hackie and Son. 2s.) —This is one of the books which seek to make, and largely succeed in making, learning attractive. While scholarship is not neglected, there is abund-......

We May Very Briefly Commend Two Volumes Of Sermons To

our readers. In the Palace of Wisdom, by the Rev. Cornelius Withetby (Siding . on and Son, 2s. 6d.), and Twenty Lent Sermons, by the Rev. Alfred G. Mortimer (same publishers,......

A Bit Of Shamrock. By Mark Guy Pearse. (h. Marshall

and Son.)—This is a very pretty little idyll. Mr. Pearse, atter the unusual experience—that it is unusual every angler will testify—of finding fish rise greedily in a......

The Story Of Burma. By Ernest George Harmer. (horace...

and Son. 1s. 6d.)—This volume, one of the "Story of the Empire" Series, is not less interesting than its predecessors Burma, which has been British, in its present extent, for......

The Story Of Our Weights And Measures. By Edward Nicholson,

(D. Fraser, Liverpool )—This little book is an earnest of a more important work to come, and a very promising earnest too. We have seldom seen so much interesting matter put......