James Edward : The Old Pretender. By Henry D. Roomo.
(B. H. Blackwell, Oxford. 2s. 6d. net.)—In this essay, to which the Stanhope Prize has been this year awarded, we have an excellent appreciation of a personage of some......
The Old Riddle And The Newest Answer. By John Gerard,
S.J. (Longman and Co. 5s. net.)—This book exhibits the qualities which one may expect in any production of its author. It is acute, powerfully reasoned, and characterised by a......
L'ile Et L'empire De Grande - Bretagne. Par Robert...
Mercure de France.)—M. D'Humieres has had considerably more experience of the countries about which ho writes than has often sufficed for the formation of a visitor's judgment.......
The Making Of A Sermon. By Arthur T. Pierson. (marshall
Brothers. 6s.)—This volume will be found useful. It does not give hints, as one might guess from the title, as to how things should be said, but rather suggests matter. We do......
Careers For Our Sons. By The Rev. George H. Williams.
(Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Williams describes with much useful detail eighteen careers. He begins with the " Church," and he ends with Colonial openings. The......
Speed Of Which They Can Boast, Not Only Now, When
speed is common, but in far back days. (The steamers were so famous for this quality that many were bought to use as blockade- runners in the American Civil War.) The first of......
Another Of The Invaluable "guides" Published By The...
the British Museum is A Guide to the Third and Fourth Egyptian Rooms. The objects described belong to a very great period of time,—from 4,500 B.C. downwards to the fourth......
A Source Book Of Roman History. By Dana Carleton Munro,
M.A. (D. C. Heath. 5s.)—It is a good idea to give the general reader the advantage of seeing in English the original authorities from which Roman history is drawn. The selection......
Work And Labour. By R. M. Minton-senhouse. (sweet And...
16s.)—This book gives, to quote its sub-title, a " com- pendium of the Law affecting the conditions under which the manual work of the working classes is performed in England."......
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