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Tropical Agriculture. By H. A. Alford Nicholls, M.d....

book is an expansion of an essay which won a prize offered by the Government of Jamaica. "Intending settlers in tropical countries " are one of the classes for whose benefit it......

Information For Pilgrims Unto The Holl Land. Edited By E.

Gordon Duff. (Lawrence and Bullen.)—The editor gives us an entertaining introduction on " Pilgrims " of old, beginning with St. Willibald (700-86), down to Richard Torkington,......

Twelve Maps Of The Ancient World. By Dr. Henry Kieppert.

(Williams and Norgate.)—This is the eleventh edition—equiva- lent, we are told, to the "third hundred thousand "—of this ex- cellent atlas. The twelve maps are the Ancient World......

Primer Of Horticulture. By J. Wright. (macmillan.)—a Most...

book, giving hints on various profitable kinds of cul- tivation. The contents were originally given as lectures, and it is an excellent idea to have them republished.......

The Ilismnot Family Of Minet. By William Minet, M.a....

printed for the Author by Spottiswoode.)—We can give but the briefest notice to a book not published ; still, it is only right to say that this is a most interesting volume,—the......

Bunton Corcla. By F. W. Bourdillon. (t. Fisher...

name will not be unknown to the readers of the Spectator, and it will be sufficient to commend to their notice this volume of graceful verse. Some of the poems have appeared in......