The Royal Society Archives : Classified Papers,...
by A. H. Church, D.Sc., F.R.S. (Printed for the Author.)— The Royal Society was a development of the Philosophical Society, and with this was connected a Committee of Trades.......
Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography. Translated By...
Wagnalls. 5s. net.)—Mr. O'Rourke gives us here, together with his own appreciation of Victor Hugo's beliefs, ways of thought, and literary methods, a translation of various......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Dublin. By Samuel A. Ossory Fitzpatrick. (Methuen and Co. 4s. 6d.......
We Have Received Altitude, Azimuth, And Geographical...
W. Littlehales (Lippincott Company, .£5 5s. net). We must be content with giving the description of its contents as supplied by the title-page. It comprises, then, "graphical......
The Northern Highlctnds In The Nineteenth Century. By...
(Carruthers and Sons, Inverness.)—This volume mainly consists of extracts from the Inverness Courier for the years 1825-41. The introduction occupies forty-four pages, arid......
The _birth Of The Nation. By Mrs. Roger A. Pryor.
(Macmillan and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—The birth-year was 1607; the place what is now called Jamestown; the child what seemed at that time a very feeble bantling, the Virginian......
The Story Of Oxford, By Cecil Theadlam, Has Been Added,
in a revised form, to the series of "Mediaeval Towns" (J. M. Dent and Co., 4s. 6d. net). It is Well worthy of its place, both for its own sake and on account of Mr. Herbert......
Sicily And England. By Tina Whitaker (née Scalia). (a. Con-
stable and Co. 103. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Whitaker prefixes an "historical Introduction," which takes us back to the eleventh century. Sicily had very much the same start as England,......
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