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Memoir Of Edward Hare. By E. E. Hare. (grant Richards.

Ss.)—Mr. Hare qualified for the medical profession in 1837, went out to India in 1839—it took him six months to reach Calcutta— and joined the Army of the Indus early in the......

London Memories. By Charles William Heckethorn. (chatto...

is the second volume which Mr. Hecke- thorn has devoted to the subject of Old London. Doubtless he has matter enough far others. The subject is, indeed, almost inexhaustible,......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not bc.n reserved for review in other forms.] Gardens, Old and New. (G. Newnes and Co. 42s. net.)—This is a sew......

Gift-booits.—a Gordon H;ghlander, By E. Everett - Green...

and Sons, 2s. 6d.), is described by its title. We have said enough about stories of the war, and it is useless to say it again. Nonum prematur in annum. Facts we cannot have too......

In The Series Of "westminster Biographies" (kegan Paul,...

Co., 3s. 6d.) we have a most admirable little book, Daniel Defoe, by Wilfred Whitten. Mr. Whitten recognises the fact that Defoe was an enigmatic person, and does not attempt......

Sport And Travel.

Sport and Travel. By F. C. Selous. (Longmans and Co. 123.) —The best of the sport recorded in this entertaining volume was obtained in Asia Minor, whose furtive wild goat might......

Sussex. By F. G. Brabant, M.a. Illustrated By Edmund H.

New. (Methuen and Co. 3s.)—Mr. Brabant's Sussex consists of two parts, a general description of the county, physical, social, and historical, and an account of the localities......

C Urrent Literature.

FRAGMENTS OF A FAITH FORGOTTEN. Fragments of a Faith Forgotten : Some Short Sketches among the Gnostics Mainly of the First Two Centuries. By G. R. S. Mead, B.A. (Theosophical......