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Electrical Influence Machines. By J. Gray, B.sc....

is one of those useful handbooks on the variety of electrical machines which are always in request. Mr. Gray discourses fully—not too fully by any means—and somewhat technically......

Descriptive Lantern Lectures On English Church History....

C. Arthur Lane. (Church Defence Institution; Kent and Co.) —This volume gives us an admirable application of Horae,e'a famous maxim,— " Segnius irritant animus demises per......

Dictionary Of National Biography. Vol Xxii. (smith And...

glad to see the name of Mr. Sidney Lee associated with that of Mr. Leslie Stephen in the editorship of the Dictionary. Mr. Lee has long been known to readers of the Dictionary......

An Outline Analysis Of "bordello." By Jeanie Morison....

and Sons.)—This is a book that commends itself by its title. No one doubts that there is much to be got out of Browning's verse, if one only has patience. Sometimes the effort......

Tales Of The Sun. By Mrs. Howard Kingscote. (w. H.

Allen and Co.)—If some of the tales of Southern India do not end by rewarding virtue in the orthodox way, they are none the less amusing, and even valuable. Nor is a good moral......

Current Literature.

True Courage. By Royston Keith. (Remington.)—" True Courage" and the stories which make up this volume are decidedly childish, if their moral teaching is irreproachable. It is......

The Treasure - Tower Of Malta. By Virginia W. Johnson....

is a readable story, with a pleasant pair of lovers, and with a distinct touch of Southern colouring and sun- shine about it. Dolores, the heroine, is a natural child of the......

Rambles In The Black Forest. By H. W. Wolff. (longmans

and Co.)—Mr. Wolff has long known and loved the Black Forest, and no one who has seen as much as he has of it, can help doing so. Mr. Wolff's enthusiasm and acquaintance with......