31 JULY 1886, page 20

Books.

FREEMAN'S "METHODS OF HISTORIC AL STUDY." 8 Mn. FREEMAN is new to the Chair of Modern History in Oxford; but 'not to the work of teaching history. For thirty years he has been......

The Badminton Library.*

ANY one who will read these two volumes will be able to get a very good idea of what horse-racing in England is,—an idea, that is, not merely of the technicalities of the sport,......

The Queen's House.*

A COMMENDABLE feature about the writer of this clever novel is her neglect of the methods of attracting interest so much in vogue with the novelist of the day. Miss Alldridge......