Some Books Of The Week.
[Under this heading tre rotice such Books of the week as have not been reserved far review in other forms.] The Ruin of Education in Ireland. By F. Hugh O'Donnell, MA. (D. Nutt.......
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Edward Edwards. By Thomas Greenwood. (scott, Greenwood,...
6d.)—" The Chief Pioneer of Municipal Public Libraries" is the description which Mr. Greenwood gives of the subject of his biography. A "biography" it hardly is. The picture of......
Parliament : Its Romance, Its Comedy, Its Pathos. By Michael
MacDonagh. (P. S. King and Son. 7s. 6d.)—The first chapter of Mr. MacDonagh's book—a sequel, we may remark, of his earlier work, "The Book of Parliament "—is given to the......
Instructions In Preaching, Catechising, And Clerical...
the Rev. Patrick Boyle. (Gill and Son, Dublin. 2s. 6d.) —The authors from whom Father Boyle draws these "instruc- tions" are St. Francis Borgia, St Francis de Sales, and St.......
Dramatic And Early Poems. By Matthew Arnold. (j. M. Dent
and Co. 2s.)—This edition contains besides " Merope," a work which probably represented Arnold's ideal of the poetic art, two prize poems, " Alaric," written at Rugby, and......
Historic Towns Of The Western States. Edited By Lyman P.
PowelL (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 15s.)—The word "historic" naturally has a significance somewhat different from that which it bears on this side of the Atlantic. Chicago,......
How To Hake An Index. By Henry B. Wheatley. (elliot
Stock. 4s. 6d.)—Mr. Wheatley is an expert in all things that concern books. And he has what few experts have, a way of giving to his knowledge, even when it is of the technical......
In The Series Of "handbooks Of Practical Gardening,"...
Harry Roberts (John Lane, 2s. 6d. not), we have the seventh volume, The Book of Vegetables, by George Withes. The volume is divided into two parts, dealing respectively with the......
New Editions.—some Notes On Books And Printing, By...
Jacobi (C. Whittingham and Co., 6s. net), a "new and enlarged edition" of a useful book, originally issued under the title of "On the Making and Issuing of Books." It is a......
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