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The Unpublished And Uncollected Poems Of William Cowper....

Thomas Wright. (T. Fisher Unwin.) —Mr. W. H. Collingridge signalised the centenary of Cowper's death by pre- senting his house at Olney to the "Town and Nation," and with it his......

Church Folks. By Ian Maclaren. (hodder And Stoughton. 3s....

is sound sense in every chapter of this book. Dr. Watson gives his ideas about preaching—" Give to your congregation your very beat" is a golden rule — about the management of......

The Church And The London Government Act, 1899. By Montague

Barlow. (W. Gordon. 6d.)—We must be content with directing the attention of such of our readers as may be interested in the matter to this pamphlet. The Act that is about to......

Reflected Lights From The "face Of The Deep." Selected And

arranged by W. M. L. Jay. (S.P.C.K. 2s. 6d.)—Miss Christina Rossetti wrote a book about the Apocalypse which will be familiar to some of our readers. From this Miss Jay has made......

The Prolongation Of Life. By B. E. Dudgeon, M.d. (chatto

and Windus. 35. 6d.)—We have read not a few books on this subject, one of the first being by Mr. Mortimer Collins, who, un- happily, did not add example to precept. As one of......

Antoine Vdrard. By John Macfarlane. (the Chiswick Press.)...

was a Paris publisher who was at work during the last years of the fifteenth century and the first of the six- teenth. The earliest book that Mr. Macfarlane has been n able to......

An Old Man's Holidays. By The Amateur Angler. (sampson Low,

Marston, and Co. 2s. net.)—We are always glad to hear from the a' Amateur Angler." We remember making acquaintance with him for the first time in Dovedale, if our memory serves......

Alfred The Great. By Jesse Page. (partridge And Co. 2s.)—

Mr. Page has written, in anticipation of the approaching mil- lenary, what will be found a useful account of the great English King. He has, we think, made a mistake in......

In The " Pestalozzi Series" (0. Newmann And Co.), Miss

Mary Senior Clark and Miss Gaynor Simpson have collaborated, as authors of the words and music respectively, in a capital collection of Original Songs, Movement Plays, and......

International Law In Africa. By T. Baty. (stevens And...

5s.)—Mr. Baty's book—the publication of lectures delivered at Oxford—may be profitably read by persons not specially interested in the study of international law. Mr. Baty may......

The Extra - Parliamentary Hansard. Vol. I. (wyman And...

volume is intended to supplement the Parlia- mentary record of politics. We cannot do better than quote the description given on the title-page. It contains, then, a "Selection......