A New Editor Makes His Appearance In The January Part
of the Oxford New English Dictionary. This is Mr. 0. T. Onions, who has undertaken the latter part of " S," and now issues the section " Su—Subterraneous" (Clarendon Press, 25.......
The Boole Of Talismans, Amulets, And Zodiacal Gents, By...
Thomas and Kate Pavitt (William Rider and Son, 7s. 6d. net), is written mainly for those who believe—or pretend to believe—in astrology and kindred superstitions.......
The Latest Publications Of The Folk-lore Society Include...
edition of the well-known Handbook of Folk-Lore (ga.), revised and enlarged by Charlotte Sophia Borne, which is intended as a guide to travellers and others who aim at eliciting......
Fiction.
A DROP IN INFINITY! Gnorrear, whose name is unfamiliar to us in the realm of romance, though his spirited verses, if we mistake not, have appeared in these columns, has given us......
Rem/jule Novuts.—at Green Englishman. By 8. Mao-...
and Ce. 6s.)—A book of short stories, amusing, but too trivial to be worthy of the writer's powers.---The Orchard Pavilion, By Arthur Christopher Benson, (Same publishers. 3s.......
The Patrol Of The Sun-dance Trail. By Ralph Connor. (hodder
and Stoughton. 6s.)—In reading "Ralph Connor's" latest novel, we have found ourselves wishing a hundred times that hie men and women would not explain to us, by meare of casual......
The Winds Of Deal. By Latta Griswold. (macmillan And Co.
6s.)—A. story of American school life is likely to prove new and rather difficult ground for the English reader who is unversed in the technicalities of baseball and the rival......
Students Of Social Reforms Affecting The Rising...
much to interest them in two American books just published by Messrs. Macmillan and Co. The excellent work of the Juvenile Protective Association, organized some years ago in......
Mrs. Horace Tremlett Has Written An Entertaining Account...
travel in Nigeria, which she calls With the Tin Gods (John Lane, 12s. 6d. net), in allusion to the metal in which her companions were chiefly interested. She saw much that few......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Notice in this column does not necessarily proclude milmcguont norm) A rousing note is struck in These Glorious Times (Longmans and Co., 2d. net), in which Mica L. H. M.......
Admirers Of The Exotic Talent Of Mr. F. W. Bain
will welcome his latest fantasy, d Syrup of the Bees (Methuen and Co., Is. net), as an anodyne for their present anxieties. It is described, as usual, as a translation "from the......
Professor Bernard Moses, Of The University Of California,...
known as a high authority on the history of The Spanish Dependencies in South America (Smith, Elder, and Co., 2 vols., 21s. net). In this learned and interesting work he deals......
Messrs. Macmillan And Methuen Issue Several Volumes Of...
call "The Service Kipling," in "a form which it is hoped will make them more convenient for general use under present conditions." Eaoh volume of the ordinary edition is now......
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