Some Books Of The Week.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been roserved for rniow in other forms.] The Book of Public Speaking. Edited by A. C. Fox-Davies. Vol. IV.......
Local Hrstonixs.—a Manor Book Of Ottery Saint Mary....
Catherine Durning Whetham and Margaret, her daughter. (Longtuans and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)--We have often had occasion to say a word in encouragement of parish histories, for, as......
The Old Time Before Them. By Eden Phillpotte. (john Murray.
6s.)—There is nothing new under the sun, and even Mr. Phillpotts's studies of Dartmoor life are not unfamiliar : here is, as usual, the fresh atmosphere of the moor, where the......
The Lvestley Richards Firm, 1812-1913. By Leslie B....
Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon. 3s. 6d. net.) —Centenaries demand a chronicle, and certainly the well- known firm of Westley Richards have taken their share in the making of......
Rzadablii Novels.—two Little Parisians. By Pierre Mille....
Drillien. (John Lane. 3s. 6d. net.)—A little study of two children which may be tolerable in the original French ; in a translation it has no especial charm, and shows little......
7s. 6d. Net.)—it May Seem Surprising That Such A Well-known
book as this, which was published in France in 1886, should never before have been translated into English. But we must remember how much slower has been the growth among......
[*** The Unlucky Family, By Mrs. Henry De La Pasture
(Henry Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton), was reviewed by us last week as a new book, there being no indication that it had been published previously. We find on reference to our......