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Expositions Of Holy Scripture. By Alexander Maclaren,...

"St. Matthew 9-16." (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. Gd.) —These "expositions" are chiefly homiletic, aiming at edification rather than interpretation. It is true that they are not......

The Pocket George Macdonald. By Alfred H. Hyatt. (chatto And

Windus. 2s. net.)—Few writers lend themselves so readily to a "Choice of Passages" as does George Macdonald. The only difficulty must be to choose. He preaches, it is true, a......

The Newspaper Press Directory (mitchell And Co., 2s.)...

the sixty-first time. It is a descriptive catalogue of the British, Colonial, and foreign Press. With regard to the last item, the principle of selection has necessarily been......

The Scots Peerage. Edited By Sir James Balfour Paul. Vol.

III. (David Douglas, Edinburgh. 30s. net, or 25s. net per vol. for the whole series of six or seven volumes.)—This volume contains thirty-three notices of noble Scottish......

Crosspatch Marietta, And Other Stories. By Helen Margaret...

Brothers, Birmingham. 5s. net.)—Some of these stories are of the fairy sort, with now and then a little touch of rationalism—the sensible mother thinks that Marietta was a cross......

Memoirs Of General Sir Henry Dermot Daly. By Major H.

Daly. (John Murray. 15s. net.)—Henry D. Daly, son of a soldier who served in the Peninsula, in the American War of 1814, and in India at the siege of Ghazni and elsewhere, went......