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Methodist Idylls. By Harry Lindsay. (james Bowden.) — It Is

rather a matter for regret that Mr. Lindsay should have chosen the word " idylls " as a title for this volume of carefully executed studies in character and spirituality. It......

Sheilah Mcleod. By Guy Boothby. (skeffington And Son.)—...

come to associate Mr. Guy Boothby with Dr. Nikola,' if not also with Dr. Nikola's ' familiar, the black cat. That very stagey familiar might well have been dispensed with; but......

Pharisees. By A. Kevill-davies. (ward And Loct.)—this Is...

clever, in parts very powerful, but by no means pleasant, American story. One fears, indeed, at the beginning that the book is to be nothing but a series of pictures of "Bowery"......

Amy Vivian's Ring. By H. M. Greenhow. (skeffington And...

is a gruesome, but, on the whole, well-constructed and powerful story of an unfortunate Anglo-Indian girl who, thanks to a peculiar ring, is under a curse, which she tragically......

Maims O' The Corner. By M. E. Francis. (harper And

Brothers.)—Mrs. Francis Blundell, who prefers to be known by the name under which she wrote "In a North-Country Village," shows wisdom in preferring the" short and simple annals......

An American Emperor. By Louis Tracy. (c. Arthur Pearson.)...

readers of this story, especially boys of the sort whose ideal author is Jules Verne, will enjoy the adventures, the hairbreadth escapes, and the marvellous triumphs attained by......

A Concordance To The Greek Testament. Edited By The Rev.

W. F. Moulton and the Rev. A. S. Geden. (T. and T. Clark.)—The speciality of this Concordance is that it is constructed for the critical texts of the New Testament (Westoott and......