30 MAY 1896, page 23

Gallica, And Other Essays. By James Henry Hallard....

Co.)—Mr. Hallard is not without the critical faculty. This he exercises to some purpose in treating of Corneille and Racine. The essays on these two classics are well worth......

'twist Will And Will Noe By Jessie L. Nicholson. (hurst

and Blackett.)—There is nothing startling or sensational in this story, nothing at all to disturb the even tenour of the narrative, yet there are two excellent characters in it,......

Consider The Heavens. By Mrs. W. S. Aldis. (r.t.s.)—this...

Introduction to Astronomy" will be found intelligible and interesting. As the author tells us that it was written under the supervision of Mr. Aldis, its scientific correctness......

The Structure Of Greek Tribal Society. By Hugh E. Seebohm.

(Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Seebohm puts together from Greek sources, illustrating from Semitic and other records, the facts about Greek family relationships. He discusses......

Henry Winiant Crosskey : His Life And Work. By Richard

Acland Armstrong. (Cornish Brothers, Birmingham.) — Mr. Crosskey began preaching very young, for he was little more than twenty-one when be accepted a settled charge, and he had......

To The Golden Goal, And Other Sketches. By Dr. J.

E. Tucker. (Doxey, San Francisco.)—Dr. Tucker, who died in San Francisco In 1891, was in his youth one of the first gold-hunters in Cali- fornia. In 1848, that province had been......

The Wooing Of Doris. By Mrs. J. K. Spender. (a.

D. Innes and Co.)—Mr. Brendon is a somewhat remarkable person, and not quite easy to realise. Still more remarkable and more difficult is his son Roger. His content with the......

The London Diocese Book, 1896 (rivington, Percival, And...

"under the sanction of the Lord Bishop of London," and contains, besides general ecclesiastical information, full particu- lars as to the institutions, churches, societies,......

A Spoilt Girl. By Florence Warden. (f. V. White And

Co.)— " Harry Brancepeth" is indeed "spoilt." Indeed, we venture to think that she is impossible. She and her five brothers are, to our mind, caricatured copies of Di Vernon and......

The New English Dictionary, Otherwise The Orford English...

by Dr. James A. H. Murray (Clarendon Press`, continues to appear in accordance with the new plan in a monthly instalment. We have before us, in the portion under the special......