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Native Life In South India. By Rev. Henry Rice. (religious

Tract Society.)—As the author says, there have been so many books written about India, that one almost feels another to be superfluous ; but he intends this, which summarises......

The Master Of The Magicians. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps And

Herbert D. Ward. (Heinemann.)—" The Master of the Magicians," say the authors in their preface, " is not an archaxdogical treatise, but a novel." And a novel of no little power......

High - School Lectures. By M. E. G. Hewett. (swan Sonnen-...

and Co.)—In these utterances of an experienced and skilful Colonial teacher, there is so much to interest fellow workers in the old country, that it is difficult to select one......