The Annual Report Of The London Missionary Society (a. Shen-

heard, Is. 6d.) contains as usual a mass of interesting facts. The inceme 1. a sum which seems impressive when we hear it, some- thing-short of-..£123,000 (net), but is quite......

The Magazines.

THE magazines of the month are hardly as interesting as usual; in particular they contain few articles on China which'are decidedly nutritive. The most readable, perhaps, is......

Boons Fob Sommas. -messrs William Clowes And Sons Send Us

the fifth edition of Colonel Ounter's The Officer's Field Note Book. This most useful little book has been revised and rewritten and brought up to date The additional memoranda......

A Biographical Sketch Of John Ruskin. By R. Ed. Pengelly.

(A. Melrose. ls.)—This is one of the books by which an expected demand is always anticipated. We have no complaint to make of it. It appears to be reasonably well done. But we......

Some Books Of Ti-ie Week.

(Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.) Hints from Boden - Powell. By the Rev. R. L. Bellamy. (Gale and......

In The "scott Library" (walter Scott, Is. 6d.) We Have

BefleCtions on the French Revolution, by Edmund Burke, with an Introduction by George Sampson. Mr. Sampson gives an excellent account of the circumstances which led to the......

How To Make And How To Mend. By An Amateur

Mechanic. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 2s.• 6d ) -There is nothing, one might almost say, on which an "Amateur Mechanic" is not ready to instruct us. Aquariums, balloons, barrels,......

In The "university Tutorial Series" (w. B. Clive), A Series

which we have often had occasion to commend for its practical utility, we have The Tutorial History of Engl•sh Literature, by A. 3. Wyatt, M.A. (2s. 6d.) This seems, as far as......

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