Battles Of Frederick The Great, From Carlyle. Edited By...
Ransome, M.A. (E. Arnold.)—Professor Ransome has given us here, with some abbreviations (for which he is careful to apologise), Carlyle's brilliant battle-pictures in his "......
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Animal Land. By Sybil and Katherine Corbet. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—This is a delightful series of drawings of nonsense- animals. The animals are drawn by Mrs. Corbet from the......
Lying Prophets. By Eden Philpotts. (a. D. Lines And Co.)—
There is no need to discuss the nature of Mr. Philpotte's plot. It turns, of course, on illicit love. The tale-writer of the day seems unable, for the most part, to get on......
The Yew - Trees Of Great Britain And Ireland. By John Lowe,
M.D. (Macmillan and Co.)—All who love the most solemn and majestic of English trees, the tree which suggests at once primitive man, the quiet of country churchyards, and the......
The First Crossing Of Spitsbergen.*
SPITSBERGEN has been discovered for three hundred years, yet the surveying expedition of Sir Martin Conway revealed the fact that every one was ignorant of the nature of the......
Selections From The Florentine Chronicles Of Giovanni...
Rose E. Selfe. (Constable and Co.)—Mr. Philip H. Wicksteed, who edits this selection, explains that it "is not intended as a contribution to the study of Villani, but as an aid......