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The Housewife's What's What. By Mary Davies. (t. Fisher...

6s. net.)—It cannot be doubted that there is a vast amount of useful information collected in this volume ; but the net has been thrown a little too widely. The alphabetical......

Magdalene College, Cambridge. By Edward Kelly Purnell,...

Robinson and Co. 55. net.)—We cannot say that Mr. Purnell has the gift of lucid exposition. The story of the foundation of the College is somewhat complicated. There was a......

Near Oxford. By The Rev. H. T. Inman. (alden And

Co. is. rid 2s. 6d. net.)—This is a companion volume to the publishers' "Oxford Guide," and gives particulars of some hundred places of interest within a radius of fifteen miles......

An En G Lish Girl In Japan. By Ella M. Hart Bennett.

(Wells Gardner, Barton, and Co. 3s. net.)—Miss Bennett introduces us to a number of interesting and agreeable acquaintances. She found the Japanese very pleasant, as every one......

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Shakespeare Documents. Collated And Arranged By D. H....

(G. Bell and Sons. 3s. 6d.)—The " Documents " reach a number for which one is hardly prepared,—one hundred and sixty-one. But then Mr. Lambert has included, and that, we think,......

Clarence Kin G Memoirs. (g. P. Putnam's Sons. 10s. 6d.)...

volume contains a short story, "The Helmet of Mambrino," addressed by Clarence King to his friend, Horace F. Cotter (otherwise Don Horaeio) ; a paper on "Don Horacio " by James......

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