Current Literature.
The Indian Village Community. By B. H. Baden-Powell, M.A., C.I.E. (Longmans and Co. 16s.)—This exhaustive and rather laborious treatise is written to disprove the theory that......
The White Hecatomb, And Other Stories. By W . C.
Scully. (Methuen and Co.)—Mr. Scully has already written a volume of" Kaffir Stories," and he now brings us another budget of the same kind. They are not of a tone, it is almost......
The Gist Of Japan, The Islands, Their People And Missions.
By the Rev. R. B. Peery, A.M., Ph.D., of the Lutheran Mission, Saga, Japan. With Illustrations. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.) —It is difficult for a book about Japan to be......
Bishop Davenant. By Morris Fuller, B.d. (methuen And Cc%...
6d.)—John Davenant was Bishop of Salisbury for not quite twenty years (1621-1641). Previously he had been Lady Mar- garet Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, and he was one of......
Victorian Literature: Sixty Years Of Books And Bookmen....
Shorter. (James Bowden.)—Mr. Shorter states that this is a "Jubilee volume," and we are, therefore, bound to regard the writer's end. It is obvious at a glance that any adequate......
A Servant O' John Company : Being The Recollections Of
an Indian Official. By H. G. Keene, C.I.E., 4k.c. Illustrated by W. Simpson, R.I., from Original Sketches by the Author. (W. Thacker and Co., London ; Thacker, Spink, and Co.,......
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