Beyond The Border. By Douglas Walter Campbell. (constable...
6s.)—This book is an agreeable surprise. It is a volume of really original fairy stories and extravaganzas, com- bining humour and sentiment in fair proportions. From the point......
Apostolic Christianity. By H. Hensley Henson. (methuen...
cannot accept all Mr. Henson's theology. In more than one place he draws conclusions which his premises, we think, do not warrant. It is a curious instance of this that Mr.......
The General Manager's Story. By Herbert Elliott Hamblen....
Co. 6s.)—These" old-time reminiscences of rail- roading in the United States" are not always easy for the outsider to understand. There are not a few technical terms in the......
Benedictine. By E. H. Lacon Watson. (grant Richards. 3s....
—Many of our readers will recognise some of these "sketches of married life" as having entertained them in the columns of the Pall Mall Gazette. They were certainly worth......
Martin Luther. By Henry Eyster Jacobs. (g. P. Putnam's Sons.
(is.)—This is the first of a projected series of " Heroes of the Reformation," and is to be followed by studies of Erasmus, Zwingli, Cranmer, and others. Professor Jacobs holds......
Trip. By Adele Frances Mount (mrs. T. M Bricknell Perry).
(Jerrold and Sons. 3s. 6d.)—This is, we are told, "a true story." It has, indeed, every appearance of truth. " Trip " is a "waif," not distinguishable, when we first see her,......
A Banchwoman In New Mexico. By Edith M. Nicholl. (mac-
millnu and Co. 6s.)—This is a very vigorously drawn picture of life in New Mexico. The conditions of climate, &c., are of a mixed kind. There is abundance of sunshine, and a......
The Boys And Girls Of The Bible. By Joseph Hammond,
B.A. 2 vols. (Skeffington and Son. 10s.)—These two volumes are of very considerable merit. Canon Hammond laments in his pre- face that the sermon is so seldom addressed to......
Parish Priests And Their People In The Middle Ages. By
the Rev, Edward L. Cutts, D.D. (S.P.C.K. 7s. 6d.)—Dr. Cutts has done what he could for his subject. Unhappily, that is but little. We know something about the practices of......
Euripides And The Attic Orators. By A. Douglas Thomson,...
(Macmillan and Co. 6s. net)—No one can read this book without greatly enlarging his knowledge of Euripides and of the orators. To some of the resemblances which Dr. Thomson......
The New How. By Mrs. C. S. Peel. (a. Constable.
3s. 6d.)— Mrs. Peel tells us how we are to arrange, decorate, and furnish a moderate-sized house. A generation ago most people were content, having settled how much they could......
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