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BOOKS.
The SpectatorTHE GEOGRAPHY OF THE PLANET.*' This work may almost be described as monumental. Edited by one of the best-known British geographers, it counts also the best geographical...
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THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.* WHEN we say that these three
The Spectatorvolumes are equal in bulk of contents to a dozen ordinary octavoea we do not suggest that the book is too long. The subject is so large, the ramifications so numerous and so...
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WEST COUNTRY LORE.*
The SpectatorMu. BARING-GOITLD has written what is something betwixt and between a guide-book and a county history. It retails the gossip and traditions, old and new, that hang about a...
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SCOTLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.* SOME time ago Lord Rosebery,
The Spectatoraddressing a meeting of one SCOTLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.* SOME time ago Lord Rosebery, addressing a meeting of one of the numerous learned societies of his country,...
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GIFT-BOOKS.
The SpectatorFOUR BOOKS FOR THE SEASON.* MR. CLARK RUSSELL'S fascinating sea-stories have an equally fascinating supplement in this "Story of the Ship." A certain literary etiquette compels...
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The Parson's Daughter. By Emma Marshall. (Seeley and Co. 5s.)—This
The Spectatorstory was left unfinished at Mrs. Marshall's death, and has been completed by her daughter, a task that has been well done. The tale is constructed, so to speak, round some of...
The Odds and the Evens. By Mrs. L T. Meade.
The Spectator(W. and H. Chambers. 5s.)—Mrs. Meade must have the credit of putting out of her mind, with a singleness of purpo se which few writers attain, the thought of pleasin,:r...
Cassell's Saturday Journal. (Cassell and Co. '75. 6d.)—The annual volume,
The Spectatorwith its usual variety of entertainment and interest. There are stories, anecdotes, sketches, things serious and things humorous, and a quite extraordinary amount of the...
Various volumes that combine the attractions of picture and story
The Spectatormay be mentioned together :—Indoor and Out (Blackie and Son, 2s. 6d.) contains little tales and fables— the fables are, perhaps, the best part of the book—contes after the...
Beasts : Thumbnail Studies in Pets. By Wardlaw Kennedy. (Macmillan
The Spectatorand Co. 4s. 6d.)—The " pets " are, for the most part, of a kind which few people observe very carefully. Among them we find a tortoise, a green frog, lizards, slow-worms,...
King Baddma's Word ; or, John Aikin's Adventures in Madagas-
The Spectatorcar. By Robert Thynne. (John Hogg.)—Mr. Thynne has told the story of the early days of Australia in two successful books. He follows it up with one about Madagascar, not so...
In Founders of the Empire, by Philip Gibbs (Cassell and
The SpectatorCo., Ss.), we have some storios that have been often told before, and will have to be told often again, for every generation likes a setting of its own for these familiar...
Peril and Patriotism. 2 vols. (Cassell and Co. 4s. per
The Spectatorvol.)—These "True Tales of Heroic Deeds and Startling Adven- tures" have a sufficiently good right to the title by which they are collectively called. There is " peril " in all...
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We have received the yearly volume' of Sunday Reading for
The Spectatorthe Young (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co., 58. cloth, 3s. paper). It is, as usual, well and plentifully illustrated—the names of Gordon Browne, W. H. C. Crroome, and Helen Miles...
John Ames, Native Commissioner. By Bertram Milford. (F. V. White
The Spectatorand Co. 3s. 6d.) —This is a story of the " Matabele Rising," full of incident vigorously described, and not a little lurid in colour, a characteristic which will not be...
The Arabian Nights Entertainments. (George Newnes. 15s.)— This is a
The Spectatorvery handsome edition of the Arabian Nights, and copiously illustrated by W. H. Robinson, Hells Stratton, A. D. McCormick, A. L. Davis, and A. E, Norbury. These artists have...
The Wonder - Workers. By A. O'D. Bartholeyns. (Hurst and Blackett. Gs.)—This
The Spectatoris a pretty book, containing legends of the flowers which have, as so many have, sacred associations, and of kindred subjects. The stories are told to little Pansy in the church...
We have yet another Fifty - two Stories, edited by Alfred H.
The SpectatorMiles (Hutchinson and Co., 5s.), stories this time "of the wide, wide world," not materially different, it is true, from its prede- cessors, for it consists of tales of...
Afloat with Nelson. By Charles H. Eden. (John Macqueen. 5s.)—The
The Spectatordate upon the title-page of this book is 1897; and it may, therefore, be a reprint or a new edition. In any case it is a very spirited story, which recalls Nelson, Copenhagen,...
Two Boys tn Wyoming. By Edward S. Ellis. (Cassell and
The SpectatorCo. 2s. 6d.)—Jack Dudley and Fred Greenwood, two spirited young American schoolboys, spend their holiday at a ranch in Wyoming. There they have various adventures, fall in with...
For the Old Flag, by C. R. Fenn (Sampson Low,
The SpectatorMoreton, and Co., 5s.), is a story of the Mutiny. The hero, who is under orders to go to England, as being too young to take part in the affairs of the time, makes a little...
Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by Mrs. E.
The SpectatorLucas, and illustrated by Thomas, Charles, and William Robinson. (Dent and Co. 5s.)—This translation is well written, and there is a freedom and a quaintness about Mrs. Lucas's...
Wynport College. By Frederick Harrison. (Blackie and Son. 5s.)—This "story
The Spectatorof school life" is satisfactory on the whole, though one does not know exactly with what kind of schools " Wynport College" must be classed. Both masters and boys are a little...
Mobsley's Mohicans. By Harold Avery. (Nelson and Sons. 3s. 6d.)
The Spectator—This is one of the most enjoyable school stories that have been published for many a day. Hanover House Academy "was not an educational establishment that had made a name in...
The Heir of Hascombe Hall. By Evelyn Everett - Green. (Nelson and
The SpectatorSons. 5s.)—The chief fault to be found with this book is that it is too long drawn out, and that many of the incidents have the character of padding. As the title, indeed,...
The Courteous Knight, and other Tales. (Nelson and Sons. 35.
The Spectator(Id.) —Mr. G. Edwardson, who edits this very handsome and interesting gift-book, admits most frankly his indebtedness to Spenser and Sir Thomas Malory. Thus certain books of the...
A Vanished Nation. By Herbert Hayens. (Nelson and Sons. 5s.)—This
The Spectatorie a praiseworthy attempt to reproduce Paraguay,— the Paraguay that Dr. Francis, too much beloved of Carlyle, governed wisely but too well to allow of a dictator being chosen...
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Buds and Stipules. By Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P. With
The Spectator340 Illustrations and 4 Coloured Plates. (Regan Paul, Trench, and Co. Gs.) — This is another of those labours of love which have made its author's name famous, and upon the like...
CURRENT LITERAT LIRE.
The SpectatorThe Climbs of Norman-Neruda. Edited, and with an Account of his Last Climb, by May Norman-Nernda. (T. Fisher Unwin. 21s.)—Some who read this book, and many who have heard merely...
The Life of Henry A. Wise, of Virginia. By his
The SpectatorGrandson, the late Barton H. Wise. (Macmillan and Co. 10s.)—If Henry Wise was not one of the makers of modern America, he was, in spite of his having his full share of his...
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Spinifez and Sand. By the Hon. David W. Carnegie. (C.
The SpectatorArthur Pearson. 21s.)—" In the Australian bush," says Mr. Carnegie, "the traveller has only Nature to war against," Nature's most formidable weapon being thirst. Water is the...
Greek Sculpture, with Story and Song. By Albinia Wherry. (J.
The SpectatorM. Dent and Co.)—This is a very pleasant, readable book, not too technical for the ordinary reader, but not wanting in solidity. Mrs. Wherry has wisely limited her list of...
War Memories of an Army Chapiain. By H. Clay Trumbull.
The Spectator(C. Scribner's Sons, New York.)—There have been few books in the very considerable literature of the American Civil War more read- able than this. Mr. Trumbull was Chaplain to...
Grammar of New Testament Greek. By Friedrich Blass, D.Phil. Translated
The Spectatorby Henry St. John Thackeray, M.A. (Macmillan and Co. 14s. net.)—Hellenistic Greek is, in the author's opinion, " 9. pure language which is governed by regular laws of its own."...
Poems of Catalina. Selected and edited by H. V. Macnaghten
The Spectatorand A. B. Ramsay. (Duckworth and Co. 2s. 6d.)—The Story of Cataus. By H. V. Macnaghten. (Same publishers. 2s. 6c1.) —We have no fault to find with the exegetical portion of...
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Old Cambridge. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson. (Mace inillan and Co.
The Spectatortis.) — This is a very pleasant, chatty, and not too literary volume on an American literary centre of the past rather than the present. It leads off very appropriately and...
Two Women in the Klondyke. By Mary E. Hitchcock. (G.
The SpectatorP. Putnam's Sons. 12s. 6d.) —Two ladies of good position in the United States, Mrs. Hitchcock, who writes the story, and Miss Van Buren, great-niece of the President of that...
Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Peebles. By Sir George Douglas, Bart. (Blackwood.
The Spectator75. 6d.)—This is an interesting and valuable addi- tion to that excellent series of "County Histories of Scotland" now being published by Messrs. Blackwood, and upon which it...
. A Short History of English Literature. By George Saintsbury.
The Spectator(Macmillan and Co. 8s. 6d.)—We cannot, of course, undertake to review the judgments which Professor Saintsbury passes on some hundreds of authors, from Caeduion down to...
The Apostle of the Ardennes. By Lady Lindsay. (Kegan Paul,
The SpectatorTrench, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Hubert the Hunter, Prince of the Ariennes, determines to follow the chase even on Good Friday. Following a milk-white hind into the recesses of the...
We give a warm welcome to the first volume of
The Spectatorthe Home Counties Magazine, edited by W. J. 'Hardy, F.S.A. (F. E. Robinson and Co., 10s. net). It is to be "devoted to • the topography of London, Middlesex, Essex, Herts,...
Among the Celestials. By Captain F. Younghusband. (John Muriay.)—This is
The Spectatoran abridgment of the author's "Hears of a Continent," and describes a journey made about thirteen years ago. It is peculiarly welcome now, for the Chinese and their cousins the...
Thoughts in Many Minds on Animal Life. Gathered by H.
The SpectatorC. F. (Women's Printing Society, Whitcomb Street. 2s.)—This little volume deserves a welcome both for intention and execution. "H. C. F." has githered from many writers,...
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A Sketch of the New Zealand War. By Morgan S.
The SpectatorGrace, C.M.G. (Horace Marshall and Son. 3s. 6d. net.)—The Hon. Morgan Grace went out in 1960 as a medical officer to the British troops. After taking an active share in the...
A new edition (the sixth) of Dr. Henry van Dyke's
The SpectatorGospel for an Age of Doubt (6s.) is issued by Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton. When it first appeared, three years ago, it was welcomed very heartily by the evangelical world as an...
A History of English Dramatic Literature. By A. W. Ward.
The Spectator3 vols. (Macmillan and Co. 36s.)—The first edition of this elaborate history, issued nearly a quarter of a century ago, has long proved itself an indispensable book of reference...
The Bases of the Mystic Knowledge. By E. Recejac. (Began
The SpectatorPaul, Trench, and Co. 6s.)—This careful translation of a recent French metaphysical treatise affords yet another illustration of the widespread European reaction against...
The Life of William Malcepeace Thackeray. By Lewis Melville. With
The Spectator25 Illustrations and Portraits. 2 vols. (Hutchinson and Co. 32s.) —Mr. Melville is of opinion that Thackeray's wish to be spared a biography was not serious. What Thackemy...
The obvious criticism of Mr. Maurice Baring's Hildesheies (Lemerre, Paris)
The Spectatoris that it is a tour de force, and for once the obvious criticism is also just,—Mr. Baring's Pastiches is a tour &force. , We know not which is the more remarkable, the skill...
Claude Bernard. By Michael Foster. (T. Fisher IJnwin. 3s. 6d.)—In
The Spectatorthis excellent little volume of the "Masters of Medicine Series," Sir Michael Foster pays his profound tribute of scientific respect to one of the most eminent of French...
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Scottish Ws and Character in Anecdote and Story. By William
The SpectatorHarvey. (Eneas Mackay, Stirling.)—Rather too large a literature has been produced upon Scottish character as ex- hibited in "good stories" ; so much for the extraordinary...
McIan's Costumes of the Clans of Scotland. (David Bryce and
The SpectatorSon, Glasgow.)—This is a new, one-volume, but "complete and unaltered," edition of a dictionary of the Highland clans which was originally published in two quarto volumes. It...
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Laden: Printed by Lova & Wnhur (thalted) at Nee. 74-76
The Spectator(heat Queen Street, ; and Published by Jona Barna for the "SPsors.ron (Limited) at their Oce, No. I Wellington Street, in the Precinct oi the Savoy, Strand, in the County of...
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As to the general military situation, it is difficult to
The Spectatorspeak with any precision, for Sir Redvers Buller most wisely keeps his own counsel. It is clear, however, that he is as rapidly as possible accumulating a considerable force at...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorW RITING on Friday, we have no events of first-class im- portance to record in regard to the progress of the war. Ladysmith, Kimberley, and Mafeking are all still closely in-...
The French Chamber reopened for business on Tuesday, and it
The Spectatorat once became evident that the conduct of the Ministry during the Recess had greatly exasperated the Opposition, both Reactionary and Socialist. The main assault made was on...
On Thursday telegrams were received in London describing a very
The Spectatorbrilliant little action which took place at Mafeking on the night of October 27th. Commandant Cronje, finding that his attempts to reduce the town by bombardment were un-...
The other military incident of the week, the action of
The Spectatorthe armoured train near Esteourt, was not so favourable to the British. At 5 o'clock on the morning of Wednesday an armoured train with about one hundred and seventy men of the...
The Queen paid a visit in semi-state to Bristol on
The SpectatorWednes- day in order to open the splendid Convalescent Home built in memory of her Diamond Jubilee, and was received with the rapture of welcoming loyalty which nowadays attends...
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Mr. George Wyndham in an interesting speech delivered to his
The Spectatorconstituents at Dover on Monday, made a point which should be noted by persons who still believe in the likelihood of a successful invasion of these islands. He pointed out that...
We regret, however, to perceive signs that the French Cabinet,
The Spectatorwhich relies in part on a Radical vote, is more than half inclined to conciliate extremists by letting them loose against the Church. The police have already been sent to search...
The German Emperor, who arrives on the 20th inst., has
The Spectatorapparently found it necessary to cut his visit short. He goes, it is stated, to Windsor and to Sandringhan, but be will not visit Lord Lonsdale, and he has declined an...
Both the Russian and the Japanese Governments anxiously deny the
The Spectatorreports that any " strain " exists in their relations. On the contrary, the Russians assert, an agreement has been recently made under wh.ch Corea is to remain "in- dependent."...
The Emperor may, however, be sorely wanted in Berlin. The
The SpectatorReichstag reassembled on Tuesday, and there are at least three subjects on which the Government will seek votes that it may not be easy to secure. There is the Navy Bill, upon...
Sir J. Wolfe Barry made on Wednesday a most interesting
The Spectatorspeech on the congestion of London. He believes that the " retardation " of business traffic between East and West, more especially coal traffic, costs the trade interests of...
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The irrepressible "Mr. Dooley" has turned from the Dreyf as
The Spectatorcase to the Transvaal. In a monologue on the war contributed to the New York Journal, he describes President Kruger as follows :—" Krueger, that's th' main guy iv th' Dutch, a...
Mr. Birrell, who was among the speakers at the Anchor
The SpectatorDinner at Bristol on Monday, complained that unless people were prepared to declare that the patriotic muse of Rndyard Kipling in language, style, and matter marked the very...
Speaking at Newcastle-on-Tyne on Tuesday, Lord Kim- berley, while demurring
The Spectatorto the view that this war was inevit- able, admitted that he had always thought that the difficulties in the way of avoiding it were very great. Mistakes had been made in the...
On Tuesday the statue of Cromwell by Mr. Thornycroft was
The Spectatorunveiled without any ceremony. The statue, though placed in the kind of giant's area which cuts off the side of Westminster Hall from the roadway, is raised on so lofty a...
Sir Michael Hicks-Beaeh made an excellent speech at the Dolphin
The SpectatorDinner at Bristol on Monday. As to the future, he clearly foreshadowed the policy we have have always upheld in these columns,—the policy ex- pressed by Lord Salisbury. Having...
At a meeting at the Queen's Hall in the evening,
The SpectatorLord Rosebery gave a quite admirable appreciation of Cromwell and his work, and showed once again how great is his sym- pathy of comprehension in matters historical. After...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE QUEEN. M UCH praise has been written of the Queen, some of it a little too Oriental for our taste, and much of it based upon a confusion between her action and that of her...
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THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICS.
The SpectatorWhat Lord Salisbury meant by his Guildhall speech is, as we have just hinted, quite obvious to those who are content to give words their obvious meanings. He clearly meant us to...
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A RESERVIST COLONY FOR THE TRANS VAAL.
The SpectatorI T is sometimes said by those who take a pessimistic view as to the future of South Africa that after we have settled with the Boers in the field. and the fighting is over we...
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LORD ROSEBERY AND LONDON.
The SpectatorO RDINARY Englishmen cannot think in millions. That is the root of the problem about which Lord Rosebery discoursed so pleasantly and so vainly on Monday in Shoreditch. Nothing...
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PARLIAMENT AND GOVERNMENT. T HE Austrian news of last week was
The Spectatorof a. piece with the Austrian news of any recent week during which the Reichsrath has been sitting. The words " Scenes " or "Disgraceful Scenes," according as the framer of the...
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RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION. E NGLISHMEN whenever they discuss persecution are apt to
The Spectatorfall into one historical error. The persecutions with which they are most familiar—those of the early Christians and the Marian persecutions in their own country—all failed, and...
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ENGLAND'S DEBT TO MILTON.
The SpectatorW E considered a abort time ago England's debt to Wordsworth. The appearance of Professor Corson's "Introduction to the Poetical and Prose Works of John Milton" (Macmillan and...
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THE EYES OF AN ARMY.
The SpectatorI N Mafeking, just before the investment closed in, Colonel Baden-Powell completed a remarkable little book, " Aids to Scouting : for Non-Commissioned Officers and Men" (Gale...
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CORRESPONDENCE.
The SpectatorENGLISH PROSE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—He who aspires to conquer style leads a forlorn hope. The world hates it, and the professed critics bate it most...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorTHE FUTURE OF THE BRITISH ARMY. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Your article on "The Future of Our Army" in the Spectator of November 11th will be welcome to many who...
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]
The SpectatorSIR,—All who are interested in the future of the British Army will welcome the article in the Spectator of Novem- ber 11th. Now is the time to found an "Army League," that it...
BACON AND THE BOER WAR.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Nearly three hundred years ago Lord Bacon, in his essay "Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates," wrote :— "By all means it is...
POETRY.
The SpectatorTHE SCHOOLFELLOW. OUR game was his but yesteryear ; We wished him back ; we could not know The self-same hour we missed him here He led the line that broke the foe....
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorSTEVENSON'S LETTERS.* IT is always difficult to say bow a book will strike other people, but a critic's business is to record his own impression, and, to our miLd, there are...
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FAMOUS TRIALS.*
The SpectatorTHE abnormal is always interesting, and the ruffians whose crimes Mr. Atlay has set forth in his Famous Trials are, happily for us, abnormal one and all. Moreover, there is in...
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SOME RECENT ECONOMIC LITERATURE.* IN his work on Statistics and
The SpectatorEconomics Professor Mayo-Smith shows in a high degree the faculty of American economists of supporting their economic theories by the clear use of figures and practical restate....
MR. GODLEY'S VERSES.*
The SpectatorMn. GODLEY has earned the gratitude of all University men and all lovers of belles - lettres by collecting in this slim volume some thirty of the entertaining pieces that he has...
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NOVELS OF THE WEEK.*
The SpectatorTHE most interesting event in the world of fiction during the past week is the republication, in a greatly enlarged form, and under the title of " They that Walk in Darkness,"...
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Saunterings in Book Land. Selected and edited by Joseph Shaylor.
The Spectator(Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co. 3s. 6d.)—This is a collection of essays, ten in number, all of them published before, and all of them worthy of their place. Sainte-Beuve,...
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorSOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. (Under this heading we nonce such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Mr. James Ford Rhodes adds a fourth volume to...
A Pictorial History of the Transvaal and South Africa, edited
The Spectatorby Commander C. N. Robinson, R.N. (George Newnes), is the work of more than one pen. Mr. John Leyland tells "The Story of South Africa," and Mr. David Hannay describes "The...
Mr. Blackburne's Games of Chess. Edited by P. Anderson Graham.
The Spectator(Longmans and Co. 7s. Cal. net.)—Mr.Blackburne has him- self selected, annotated, and arranged these games, and the editor adds a biographical sketch. Mr. Blackburne was born at...
Country Matters in Short, by W. F. Collier (Duckworth and
The SpectatorCo., 3s. 6d. net), is a volume to which we cannot do justice in the brief space that can be allotted to it. Mr. Collier writes about various subjects, but a good half of his...
THEOLOGY.—The Doctrine of St. John. By Walter Lowry, M.A. (Longmans
The Spectatorand Co. 5s.) — We cannot pretend to epitomise this carefully reasoned statement of the teaching of St. John, a phrase which includes, though with a certain hesitation, the...