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Sir Anthony Shirley The Author Of Shakespeare's Plays. By...

Surtees. (H. Gray.)—Mr. Scott Surtees does not think that Mr. Ignatius Donnelly has proved his case, and doubtless is right in so thinking. Yet one of his reasons is a curious......

Two Volumes Of A .practical Kind May Be Mentioned Together.

These are, Practical Surveying, by George W. Usill (Crosby Lock- wood and Son), described as " a text-book for students preparing for examination, or for survey-work in the......

A Winter On The Nile. By The Rev. Charles D.

Bell, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Canon Bell tells pleasantly enough a story that has been told many times before. He spent a winter in Egypt, going up the Nile in a steamer as......

A Handbook Of Foreign Missions. (religious Tract...

this volume a compendious account of the work of all the missionary societies of Christendom. The list begins with the "New England Company," an institution of which, we venture......

In The Series Entitled "by-paths Of Biblical Knowledge,"...

The Hittites : the Story of a Forgotten Empire, by A. H. Sayee, M.A. (Religious Tract Society.)—Professor Sayce popularises, with the skill which we are accustomed to associate......

A Life Of Matthew Fontaine Maury, U.s.n. And C.s.n. Compiled

by his Daughter, Diana Fontaine Maury Corbin. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The subject of this charmingly written memoir was born in 1806, entered the United States Navy as a......

Life Aboard A British Privateer In The Time Of Queen

Anne. Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner. With Notes and Illustrations by Robert C. Leslie. (Chapman and Hall.)—In the course of Captain Rogers's famous......

Church Echoes. By Mrs. Carey Brock. (seeley And Co.)—we Have

more than once had occasion to say that tales constructed on an elaborately didactic plan such as we find in the volume now before us, are seldom successful. "A Tale......