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Einleitung in ein ægyptisch-semitischindoeuropaeisches Wurzel wörterbuch. 1886. Ache, C. d' (pseud. of E. Poirié). Carnet de chèques.

"One of the cleverest of living caricaturists, he has made the Panama scandals the subject of a little Carnet de chèques' which everybody who can laugh at the laughable should possess." - Sat. rev., Jan. 21. Alden, E. K. The world's representative assemblies of to-day; a study in comparative legislation.

Archivio di pedagogia diritto da E. Latino. [187683.] 12 v.

Arnold, Sir E. Adzuma; or, The Japanese wife; a play.

"No mention of his indebtedness to native sources appears on the title-page. From the prologue we gather that it is a story of old Japan;' but it is not until we are more than half through the work that a footnote reveals the fact that Japanese versions of the story ex ist. Cast in dramatic form the story is not only readable but impressive."- Spectator, Feb. 11. Ballou, M. M. The story of Malta.

Balzac, H. de.

Lost illusions; The two poets; Eve and David; tr. by K. P. Wormley. Barker, E: H. Wanderings by southern waters;

eastern Aquitaine.

"The name of the book conveys no idea of the freshness, the originality, and the romance of its pages. He is the most painstaking explorer of Europe who has written the record of his travels since George Barrow, and it is interesting to follow him into the strange retreats where he makes a temporary home, wherein he sets down his vivid descriptions of the scenes of his wayfaring." Athenæum, Feb. 25.

Barry, J: W. Studies in Corsica.

Well written and of varied interest. A series of graphic pictures of his journey to Corsica is followed by a sketch of the history of the island, its dialect and social life."- Academy, Mar. 11.

Bates, W: W. American marine; the shipping question in history and politics.

Batiffol, R:, l'abbé. Histoire du bréviaire romain.

Treats of "La Genèse des heures; Les origines de P'Ordo psallendi' romain; Description de l'office cano. nique romain du temps de Charlemagne; L'office dit mo. derne et le Bréviaire de la cour romaine; Le Bréviaire du Concile de Trente; Les projets de réforme du pape Benoit XIV."

"L'histoire ancienne de l'office romain est traitée avec tous les éléments nouveaux que mettent aujourd hui à la disposition des critiques les travaux de M. de Rossi et de M. l'abbé Duchesne, l'histoire moderne avec ceux que l'auteur a recueillis dans les bibliothèques romaines, et ceux plus inattendus encore que lui out fournis les Archives du Ministère des Affaires étrangères, à Paris."

Behrs, C. A. Recollections of Count Leo Tolstoy; with a letter to the women of France on The Kreuzer sonata; tr. from the Russian by C: E: Turner.

"Bears a remarkable witness to Tolstoy's strenuous and courageously unrelenting simplicity and sincerity; and no one who reads it will fail to feel that we have at least one living man of genius whose life and work are in beautiful and satisfying accord."- Academy, Mar.

25.

Bell, M. Edward Burne-Jones; a record and review; illust.

"His aim embraces a preliminary memoir, a year-by. year chronicle of the artist's production, and a current comment, of a discursive kind, on Mr. Burne-Jones's art as exemplified in its entire range. In a final chap- .

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"Cannot fail to attract the attention of the student of the customs of primitive man, and particularly of that grade of nascent civilisation which is depicted in Hiawatha, for the rhythm and no doubt many of the leading ideas of which Longfellow was greatly indebted to the Finnish epic." — Academy, Mar. 18.

Bryan, C. W. Carriage driving in and near and unto Western Massachusetts.

"From Springfield to the New York border there is very little of Massachusetts which Mr. Bryan has not driven over or seen from near or far; and while the Berkshire Hills and the Valley of the Connecticut receive the most attention, a glimpse is afforded of the rare scenic beauty of Worcester County. The book is a practical guide to the seeker after abandoned farms,' and sites glorious in their prospect, and enviable for their healthfulness."— Nation, Mar. 23..

Cagnat, R. L'armée romaine d'Afrique et l'occupation militaire de l'Afrique sous les empe

reurs.

"Il était bien préparé à un pareil travail par les missions qu'il a remplies en Tunisie et en Algérie, et par la connaissance approfondie qu'il a de l'épigraphie africaine. Le centre de son sujet était l'histoire de la legio IIIa Augusta. M. Cagnat s'est plu à le retracer avec soin; mais il a aussi étendu ses recherches à toutes les troupes cantonnées dans l'Afrique du Nord et même à la flotte. J'aime encore mieux la chapitre où l'au teur examine la question du recrutement de la IIIa lé. gion et des troupes auxiliaires. Pour la traiter,il n'avait qu'à s'inspirer de l'article bien connu de M. Mommsen. Il en a confirmé les conclusions par un supplement de preuves, et il a ainsi contribué pour sa part à démontrer quelques vérités d'une três grande portée historique. Il a élucidé avec le même bonheur tout ce qui concerne les subsistances, les vêtements, les armes, la solde, les travaux de le paix, les caisses d'épargne mili taires, etc. Les renseignements qu'il nous fournit à ce sujet ne sont pas tous absolument nouveaux; mais ils sont présentés d'une façon plus précise que partout ail. leurs." Revue critique, 5 déc.

Cambridge, A. (now Mrs. G. F. Cross). A little minx; a sketch.

"As a picture of Australian life, of the small dignities and duties of an archdeacon's wife, and the buzzing talk of small-minded women the story is excellent." Literary world, Apr. 8.

Carus, P. Truth in fiction; 12 tales.

"Tales with a moral. Each of these illustrates a half-hidden, half-expressed principle of evolution or ethics, such as the stupidity of intolerance, the weakening quality of indiscriminate charity, the truth in old errors, etc." - Literary world, Mar. 25.

Chabot, A. Les fiancés de Radégonde. 2e éd. 1889.

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qul ne laisse pas de nous dégourdir. M. Chabot savait conter; cela devient assez rare. Vous vous rappelez bien Le nez d'un notaire,' d'Edmond About? C'est cette histoire philosophique et navrante que M. Chabot a racontée à sa manière. Il fait suite aux 'Fiancés de Radégonde.' ” — Revue bleue, 9 oct. Collum, R: S. History of the U. S. Marine Corps. 1890. Copeland, A. M. History of Murrayfield, earlier known as Township no. 9, comprising the present towns of Chester and Huntington, part of Montgomery and Middlefield, 1760

.83. 1892.

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Cornell University.

Proceedings and addresses

at inaug. of J. G. Schurman to the presidency of Cornell Univ., Nov. 11th. Crawford, F. M. The children of the King.

"The scene is laid in Italy, but away from cities, and it is full of the warmth of summer, and the salt breath of the sea."- Critic, Feb. 18.

Cushing, M. The story of our Post office; the

department in all its phases; illust. Daudet, Mme. A. Euvres, 1878-89; L'enfance d'une Parisienne; Enfants et mères. Dickens, M.. A. A mere cypher; a novel.

"In all that relates to Mrs. Custance and the dark episode of Norman Strange's life the story is admirable and true. Unsuspected and unknown to himself from first to last the influence which drags him out of the slough of Despond and sets his feet on the right path is that of Mrs. Custance an insignificant, frightened, faded lit. tle woman, possessing pity and faith enough to make themselves unconsciously felt through her unattractive exterior." Sat. rev., Mar. 11.

Douglas, J. Bombay and Western India; a se

ries of stray papers. 2 v; illust.

We are

"Covers an enormous deal of ground. Former gov ernors in full-bottomed wigs, professional beauties as they would now be termed, men of repute in legal and commercial circles, astute Hindu ministers, Nelson and Wellington, Elphinstone, Mackintosh, and Frere, Tom Coryat the pilgrim, Henry Martin the missionary, succeed each other in bewildering profusion. not only told what they did, how they dressed, and where they lived, but what they might probably have said or done in uncertain di contingencies. Further, the author, with a laudable anxiety to bring the past before the eye of the reader has adopted the device of speaking in the first person about scenes and events that took place one or two hundred years before he was born.' Sat. rev., Feb. 18.

Ducamp, M. Souvenirs littéraires. 2 v.

Elliot, F. Diary of an idle woman in Constantinople.

"Mrs. Elliot's idea was excellent. She wished to clothe the famous sites of Constantinople with the his torical associations which belong to them. She stands in the Hippodrome and conjures up again the scenes which were enacted there; she makes Justinian and Theophilus, Mahommed and Osmân, basileus and 'im. perador,' sultan and grand vizier, eonverse in an animated and agreeable manner just as if she had been a bystander at their colloquies. Landor might not have approved of the local colour and historical tone of these imaginary conversations, and to say the truth, they are sometimes a little confusing to those who hap pen to know the history; but the ordinary traveller will undoubtedly learn a great deal about the associations of

the 'sights' from Mrs. Elliot's vivacious pages which he certainly will not discover in any other book." — Athenaum, Feb. 18.

Eminent persons; biographies reprinted from the Times. 3 v.

"A series of obituary notices, many of them of great excellence." Athenæum, Jan. 28.

Eyssenhardt, F. Mittheilungen aus der Stattbibliothek zu Hamburg. 1-9. [1884-92.] Field, M., pseud. Stephania; a trialogue.

"All that stands out to us very clearly is what it really is, the story of an unseemly and unscrupulous revenge. All this allowed for and our own dislike for the subject chosen fully admitted, we must credit Stephania with undoubted dramatic power." — Spectator, Feb. 4.

Foster, J. Men-at-the-bar; biographical handlist of the members of the Inns of Court; incl. judges, etc. 1885.

Fustel de Coulanges, N. D.

Questions historiques rev. et complétées par C. Julian : De la manière d'écrire l'histoire; Les origines de la propriété; Polybe; Chio; Questions contemporaines.

Geoffroy de Grandmaison, C: A. L'ambassade française en Espagne pendant la Révolution, 1789-1804.

Gilbert, J: T: Documents relating to Ireland, 1795-1804; official account of Secret Service money,governmental correspondence, etc. Gilmore, G. W. Korea from the capital.

"He has put together much information concerning the people, and he reënforces his accurate text with twenty five reproductions of photographs taken from life. They are well chosen, and bring home the Kore. ans to our eyes." - Literary world, Feb. 25. Hamerton, P. G. Man in art; studies in religious and historical art, portrait, and genre; with plates.

"The illustrative plan of the book, exhibiting as it does the variety and excellences of the reproductive processes, is both novel and important. In the main, the significance of the title is displayed in the illustra tions and the brief comments upon them, and not in the series of eloquent essays on art and its functions which forms the text of the volume." Sat. rev., Mar. 25. Handbook for travellers in Syria and Palestine. New ed. [by Haskett Smith].

Havard, H: Les Boulle. (Les artistes célèbres.) "Of special value to the technical student. The second chapter, by itself, forms a valuable essay on the different epochs in the making of French furniture.” Westminster rev., April.

History of North America;

comp. a geog. and statist. view of the U. S., and of the British Canadian possessions. 1820. 2 v.

Hudson, W: H: Idle days in Patagonia; illust. "A delightful book, and a worthy successor to The naturalist in La Plata.'"- - Academy, Mar. 4. Hungerford, Mrs. M. H. Lady Verner's flight.

Thin and weak are the strands of the web which Mrs. Hungerford weaves in her last society romance; light and bright are the characters around whom her web is cast, and who flutter and fret in its meshes. Never was there a more venomous, a more fascinating spider at large in the drawing-rooms of London than Sir Gaston Verner." Athenæum, Mar. 11. Huntoon, D. T: V.

pub. by the town.

History of Canton, Mass.;

Hurst, J: F. Short history of the Christian Ch. "The history of the churches in the United States is treated with considerable detail and with notable fairness." Nation, Mar. 2. Hutton, A. Old sword-play; the systems of fence in vogue, 16th-18th centuries; with lessons from ancient masters; cont. plates. "Chiefly remarkable for the illustrations, which are reproduced from the works of Morozzo, Alfieri, Angelo, and others. These illustrations are accompanied by a somewhat slender account of the various systems of sword play."- Nation, Feb. 16.

Imbert de Saint-Amand, A. L., baron. Les femmes des Tuileries; Marie Amélie et la duchesse d'Orléans.

Irving, H: (previously J: H: Brodribb).)

drama; addresses.

The

Jaques, J. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints; its priesthood, organization, doctrines, etc.

Jeaffreson. J: C. Victoria, Queen and Empress.

2 v.

"There is nothing new in the incidents; but every reader will admit that these occurrences are drawn together with so much judgment and ability, and in what is comparatively so small a compass, as to make these volumes entirely acceptable." - Academy, Apr. 1. Johnston, R: M. Mr. Billy Downs and his likes. Karamzin, N. M. Voyage en France, 1789-90;

trad. du russe et annoté par A. Legselle. 1885.

Károly, K: Guide to the paintings of Florence.

"Supplies in condensed form, and in a method of the highest practical convenience to visitors, a complete descriptive catalogue of all pictures in Florence, with brief citations from the works of critics and historians, notes of legends connected with the paintings or their subjects, and full indexes to the various galleries. It also embraces paintings in the neighborhood." - Sat. rev., Mar. 11.

"The study of either the pictures or the critics is utterly superficial, and while his judgment of the former is crudely dogmatic, his collation of the latter is ab. surd." Nation, Apr. 6.

Landor, W. S. Poems, dialogues in verse, and epigrams; ed with notes by C: G. Crump.

2 v.

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Linton, W: J.

Les styles fran

European republicans; recollections of Mazzini and his friends. "However interesting and touching are the sketches of little known heroes, it is his accounts of Mazzini, Lamennais,and Herzen which possess the greatest value. The account of Mazzini, which fills nearly half the volume, is largely compiled from his autobiography and political pamphlets. We need not warn the reader that Mr. Linton is partisan; indeed, the final worth of this book consists in the utter and uncompromising sincerity with which it states only one side of many of the debatable events in which Mazzini had a share." Nation, Apr. 13.

Lyall, Sir A. Rise of the British dominion in India. (Univ. extension manuals.)

"The opening chapter is a brilliant résumé' of the early competition for Indian commerce from the 16th to the 18th century. The story of the Dutch, English, and French East India Companies is ably sketched, and the French occupation and expulsion finely described. The history ceases with the annexation of the Punjab.' - Literary world, Mar. 25.

M'Crie, C: G.

[Apr. 25, 1893

Public worship of Presbyterian Scotland, historically treated; 14th ser. of the Cunningham lectures.

Margaret (Marguerite de Valois, d'Orléans, or d'Angoulême) Queen of Navarre. Memoirs, written by her own hand; trans. with introd. and notes by V. Fane.

"The first wife of Henry IV., the Reine Margot of Dumas, a very clever and, as she thought, an ill-used woman, who vindicates herself in these pages, and has a certain attractiveness which even a perusal of the very curious Divorce satyrique' will not entirely ob scure. That she managed to interest her contempora ries and succeeding generations is abundantly manifest." Spectator, Feb. 4. Meredith, G: Jump to Glory Jane; ed. and arr. by H. Quilter; with designs by L. Hous

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"Is very sensible, and suggests the romances of fifty years ago." Literary world, Apr. 8. Pearson, C: H. forecast.

National life and character; a

"The whole book is little more than an expansion and justification of the famous warning of another Oxonio-Australian of seven-and-twenty years ago. When Mr. Lowe drew his picture of democracy with its thistles as forest trees, he had gone through much the same career, and he had apparently even then come to much the same conclusion. It is a laboured, and to a great extent, a successful attempt to prove that the substitution of the state for the church, the decay of the family, the equalization of rights and privileges, the dominance of industrial organizations, the great increase of population, and so forth, will destroy character, weaken the interest of life, kill genius, favour only the lower races and individuals, obliterate by degrees all that is noblest, most precious, rarest, best worth living for." Sat. rev., Feb. 25. Pemberton, T. E. Robertson.

Life and writings of T. W.

"He has done his work well on the whole. The ad. mirable papers by Robertson on Stage types' were well worth reprinting. On the other hand the collection of epigrams from his plays would have gained immensely by the weeding-out of a number of very obvious truisms. But these blemishes may be readily overlooked in view of the general readableness of the volume."- Spectator, Feb. 11.

Philips, F. C. A doctor in difficulties.
Picot, E.

Bibliographie Cornélienne; ou, Description raisonnée de toutes les éditions des œuvres de P: Corneille, etc. 1876.

Poynter, F. An exquisite fool; a novel.

"The analysis of character is the interesting part of it, and the reader's attention is held from the beginning to the tragic end." - Literary world, Jan. 14. Praed, Mrs. C. Zero; a story of Monte Carlo.

Rodger, E. H. B. Aberdeen doctors at home and abroad; narrative of a medical school.

"A delightful miscellany of gossip, social and scientific. It traces the history of medicine and surgery from their primitive beginnings, when medicine was practiced by the monks, and surgery was monopolized by the barbers, and it abounds in telling sketches of celebrities and eccentricities, and is full of quaint and characteristic stories."- Sat. rev., Jan. 25.

Ropes, J: C. The campaign of Waterloo; with Atlas.

"It was well to have an American student of the campaign give an impartial and judicial analysis of the great conflict of authors as well as of generals. He has reached conclusions which may fairly be accepted as reasonable, and has given us a narrative which is probably more free from question than any one which has heretofore been published." - Nation, Mar. 9. Salisbury, E. E. and E. M. Family-histories and

genealogies; genealog. and biog. monographs; with pedigree-charts and charts of combined descents. 3 v.

Schwob, M. Cœur double. 2e éd. 1891. Scrap-book, [cont. a coll. of envelopes in use during the Civil War]. 2 v.

Sedding, J: D. Art and handicraft.

"His views on the study of architecture are especially invigorating. The most despondent of pessimists might be stirred by his eloquent plea for the outdoor study of English architecture. And there is much excellent good sense in his advice to the young stu dent." Sat. rev., Mar. 11.

Shaler, N. S. The interpretation of nature.

"Quite a host of miscellaneous facts relating to the inhabitants of the United States are brought together, most of which it would be hard to find elsewhere, and many of which are the result of the writer's own shrewd and original observations. Some of the points raised are most curious, and at every page occur pas. sages which one would like to quote." Athenæum, Feb. 25.

Silvagni, D: Rome; its princes, priests, and people; a trans. of [his] La corta e la societá Romana by F. Maclaughlin. 1885-87. 3 v. Stead, R: Bygone Kent.

Stephen, L. An agnostic's apology; and other es

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Thomas, E. F. Three months in Europe; a journal of travel in England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Belgium. Thornely, J. L. The monumental brasses of Lancashire and Cheshire; with acct. of the persons represented.

"The counties are not eminently endowed in ancient or beautiful brasses. Some few are very fine examples, however, and many are curious."- Sat. rev., Mar. 11. Torrens, W: T. M. Twenty years in Parliament. "A book by a man with a rarely equalled experience of politicians." Sat. rev., Jan. 11. Tucker, F. de L. B.

Life of Catherine Booth, mother of the Salvation Army. 2 v. Vallée, L. Bibliographie des bibliographies. 1883. Supplément. 1887.

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Van Dyke, J: C. Art for art's sake; seven university lectures on the technical beauties of painting.

"Furnishes agreeable and profitable reading, and will serve well as a handbook of principles and rules from which one may learn to appreciate technical excellences and judge a painting from something beside the story it is supposed to tell." — - Literary world, Apr. 8. Van Oss, S. F. American railroads as investments. "Originating in London the work is primarily intended for English investors. A much larger body of readers will find the volume very entertaining and instructive. It contains the freshest and most reliable statement of the whole railroad situation to be found at present." Literary world, Mar. 11. Vaultier, M.. C. F: E. Souvenirs de l'insurrection normande, dite du Fédéralisme,en 1793; pub. avec notes, etc., par G: Mancel. 1858. Villon, F. C. Poems; done into English verse, with biog. and critical introd. by J. Payne. Vuillier, G. Les fles oubliées; les Baléares, la Corse

et la Sardaigne; impressions de voyage; illust.

"Si les dessins recueillis sur place par l'auteur sont merveilleux, le texte est fort agréable à lire; certaines pages sont très poétiques et quelques-unes des illustrations, paysages ou types, peuvent être considérées comme des chefs-d'œuvre du genre." - Polybiblion, dée.

Waldstein, C: Excavations of the American School of Athens at the Heraion of Argos, 1892. No. 1.

Walker, H. Three centuries of Scottish litera

ture.

2 v.

"A pleasant and sympathetic study of various moments rather than a minute chronicle. Without much originality or much method, it is readable and lucid, and possibly may lead a few of its students to look into the neglected originals." - Sat. rev., Feb. 4. Wedmore, F. Renunciations; A chemist in the suburbs; A confidence at the Savile; The north coast and Eleanor.

"The first piece is the best of the three; as a study of the man with aspirations it is not ineffective. But in this, as in the other pieces, one feels that the story is not written for any interest of its own, but as an excuse for a series of isolated sketches, thrown as it were on to the canvas with more regard to the decorative ef fect than to a representation of life."— Athenæum, Jan.

28.

Willard, M. Life of Rev. S: Willard, of Deerfield, Mass.

Winslow, W: C. The queen of Egyptology, Amelia B. Edwards.

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Eschylus. Lyrical dramas; trans. into English verse by J: S. Blackie. 1850.

The Oresteia; trans. into English prose by L. Campbell, with introduction. Alexander, W:, Bp. of Derry and Raphoe. Primary convictions; discussions. (Columbia Coll, lect.)

Aristoteles. Constitution of Athens; rev. text, with introd. notes, etc., by J. E. Sandys. Atkins, T. D. The Kelt or Gael; his ethnography, geography, and philology. 1892. Austin, A. Fortunatus the pessimist. 1892.

"Not a philosophical treatise but a poem, which takes hold of the reader and carries him along in better and better satisfied condition and leaves him well pleased with himself, itself, and the author." Sat. rev., Dec. 3.

Ball, Sir R. S. Time and tide; a romance of the moon; 2 lectures, London Institution, Nov. 19, 26, 1888. 2d ed., rev. 1892. (Romance of science.)

Ballou, M. M. Story of Malta. Barrie, J. M. An Auld Licht manse; and other sketches; biog. and lit. estimate by E. Henderson.

"A heterogeneous collection of brief newspaper essays and sketches, which are lit up with his inimitable humor, but are not examples of his mature literary style. A long biographical sketch accompanies the sketches." Literary world, Apr. 22. Barry, A. Some lights of science on the faith; eight lectures before the Univ. of Oxford, 1892.

Beeching, Rev. H. C. A paradise of English poetry. 2 v.

"We must commend Mr. Beeching's excellent notes. They are interesting, to the point, not too long, and often enable one to get an additional touch of pleasure from the verse they annotate."- Spectator, Feb.

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Brown, H. F.

Venice; an historical sketch of the Republic.

"Mr. Brown's excellent sketch is sure to receive a warm welcome. While giving due prominence to the constitutional history of Venice, he is never dull, and has indeed rendered this side of his subject specially interesting by exhibiting the connexion between each of the various changes in the constitution, and the political events that led to it. His thorough knowledge of Venice has enabled him to impart a pleasant local colour to his history of the city, and he has with good ef. fect occasionally given extracts from Venetian chroni. clers, preserving in his translation the vigour and quaint simplicity of his author's language." Sat. rev., Mar. 18.

Burrows, M. Commentaries on the history of England; from earliest times to 1865.

Bashill, T. W. Profit-sharing and the labour question; with introd. by S. Taylor.

"A useful little book written by a profit-sharing employer." Athenæum, Mar. 25.

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Chennells, E. Recollections of an Egyptian princess; 5 years at the court of Ishmael Pasha, Khédive. 2 v.

"The life of a great harîm under a kind mistress is painted in all its details with the utmost fidelity and without a breath of scandal." · Athenæum, Mar. 25. Chittenden, L. E. Personal reminiscences, 184099; incl. some not published of Lincoln and the war.

"Its fervent patriotism and loyalty to the national idols and ideals, and its unobtrusive but uncompromis. ing Christian faith and spirit, make it a thoroughly quickening book to one's patriotism and religion. The book is full of stories, and they are almost uniformly entertaining. The bar stories are perhaps as good as any, but there is scarcely a dull page in the volume."- Literary world, May 16.

Clerk, Sir J., Bart., of Penicuik. Memoirs of [his] life, extracted by himself from his journals, 1676-1755; ed. with introd. and notes by J: M. Gray. 1892. (Scottish Hist. Soc.) Clifford, Mrs. L. L. A wild proxy; a tragic comedy of to-day.

"Will be a surprise to readers who have formed their conception of her work from Aunt Anne.' Instead of a finished and minute study of character, it is a story of modern adventure more than justifying the adjective in the title. As reviewers, we feel aggrieved, for the adventure is so original that we feel bound, in justice to the book, not to disclose what it is." - Pall Mall budget, Apr. 13.

Colomb, Rear-Adm. P. H. Essays on naval de

fence.

"On the problems of imperial defence the opinions of Admiral Colomb are always worth studying, and the republication of these essays is an inducement to reread and re-study them."— Athenæum, Mar. 18. Copleston, R. S., Bp. of Colombo. Buddhism primitive and present in Magadha and Cey

lon. 1892.

"The detailed criticism is quite equal in thoroughness and honesty to those of the first Biblical or higher critics of our time when handling the Hebrew and Christian records. After the literary criticism comes the story of the Buddhist communities in Ceylon at the present time, the final chapter being a most interesting picture of the modern monastic life and of the Buddh ism now taught in Ceylon." - Critic, Jan. 28.

Cox, M. R. Cinderella; 345 variants of Cinderella, Cat-skin, and Cap O'Rushes; with introd. by A. Lang. (Folk-lore Soc.) "The stories are skeletons and skeletons only; but the book is a marvel of industry, patience, and research." Athenæum, Apr. 15.

Craik, H: English prose selections; with introds. by various writers, and general introds. to each period. Vol. 1.

"The study of English literature is like a journey through a vast wilderness, and the duty of selecting passages from the greatest authors is one that cannot be too carefully carried out. The task has been admir. ably performed by Mr. Craik.” — Westminster review, April.

Crepaz, A. The emancipation of women,

and its

probable consequences; with a letter by W. E. Gladstone.

"Fran Crepaz is one of those fortunate mortals who have been introduced to universal consideration by

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