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How Our Navy Is Bun. By Archibald S. Hurd. With

a Pre- face by Lord Charles Beresford. (C. A. Pearson. 5s.)—In this volume there is a combination of actual fact and what we may call hypothetical fact. By this latter we mean......

Alfred The Truthteller. — We Have Received The Authorised...

Rosebery's address on Alfred the Truthtellor, delivered at Winchester on the 20th inst. This interesting eulogy, to which we refer elsewhere, handsomely printed as an eight-page......

We Have Received A New Edition Of A Kentucky Cardinal

and Aftermath, by James Lane Allen (Macmillan and Co., 68.), deli g ht. fully illustrated after his manner by Mr. Hugh Thomson.-- We have also King Alfred, by Stopford A. Brooke......

Portrait Of The Late President Mckinley. — We Have...

W. Heinemann (2s. 6d.) an excellent reproduction of Mr. Nicholson's coloured drawing of the late President. It is striking example of the artist's powers, and shows him at his......

Lochhead's Bloemfontein Directory. (orange River General

Agency. 5s.) — We notice this volume as an ladle Alen that things are returning to their normal condition, at least in set ae parts of the annexed States. There are other......

A Yeoman's Letters. By P. T. Ross. (simpkin, Marshall, And

Co. 5s.)—Mr. Ross went out with the 69th Sussex Company Imperial Yeomanry. He reached the Vaal River on May 28th, 1900, came back to Cape Town in March last, and reached home in......

Some Recollections Of Jean Ingelow. (wells Gardner,...

3s. 6d.)—This is a very pleasing little book. Miss Ingelow was Lincolnshire born, and some of her best verse is inspired by her birth-land. On the whole, she never wrote any-......

The Childhood Of Queen Victoria. By Mrs. Gerald Gurney....

Nisbet and Co. 6s.)—The little details about Queen Victoria's education which Mrs. Gurney has been able to gather from various sources are peculiarly interesting. There are......