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English Literature, From The Beginning To The Conquest....

A. Brooke. (Macmillan and Co. is. 6d.)—This is a "recast," with abridgments and also with additions, of Mr. Stop- ford Brooke's larger work on "Early English Literature up to......

Auld Lang Syne. Second Series, "my Indian Friends." By The

Right Hon. Professor F. Max Muller. (Longmans and Co. 10s. 8d.)—This work is not so interesting as the first series of Auld Lang Syne. It is far less personal and anecdotal, and......

Saint Louis. By Marius Sepet. With A Preface By George

Tyrrell, S.J. (Duckworth and Co. 3s.)—Freeman has some- where compared Washington, Charlemagne, and Alfred as ideal rulers. Probably a comparison between Alfred and the good St.......

The Foundations Of Society. By J. William Harper. (ward,...

and Co. 6s.)—The ostensible aim of this book is, by careful examin- ation of the constituent elements of social life, to ascertain the com- parative importance of the......