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    series . From Messrs . Morgan & Scott . —* Tried by

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    were the course afterward of the s author published ' s stated serially minist ry , and The Christian . They are now reprinted as a

    • volum and to e ' in response will doubtless to very many reques table ts / reading :. many The book makes no prove pretension accep * to

    be critical or exhaustive . ' and it is certainly was lacking inevitable in unity from and"continuity the manner . This in , which howeve it ,

    was prepared . From Mr . John Murray . —* Handbook for

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    the has ci hitherto ty of Lincoln had no is adequate yet without history its , historian and that . Histories of Lincolnshire _ parishes exist in

    plenty but the , and - county there , as are a good whole local , has topograp not hitherto hies , been exhaustively described . The present

    the taken handbook want to , and is ive intended at £ rea once t pains , to fulness some have extent and evidentl , to supp been of ly g accuracy

    ! | have information been consulted . All the and available these have authorities been - plemented by descriptio , ns written as often sup as

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    are « course nd the , the ted historical genera fully . l The history student tourist and alilt , the the ewill anti anti quarian rind quities the ,

    volume useful . , , From A » t Messrs oamsb -rm w w . Thomas h Nelson w m tmm & tw Sons v-k » ¦ ** . m — ¦ j ^ ^^ r ^^ ^* ^^^^^ ^*^ ^^ ^ —^ ^^ *¦» ' ^^ " ^^ *^^^^^ ^^ ^^

    * Simon Peter , his Life and Times , ' by Charles S ske . Robinso 'chthat n , D takes . D . us An back interesting eighteen biograp centuries hical

    and places , us among scenes the most memor- , mad able in the deep world stud ' s y history of the . life Dr . Robinson and times has of

    na Peter tive , and appreciation he enters into that them makes with an the imag old i-Oalilean world live for us again . The study

    of failings Peter , is , as valuabl a man e as , with well as all interesting his faults . and From — the same . —* The Lost Ringa Romance of

    Scottish History in the Days of , King James and An agreeabl Andrew y Melville written romance / by M . Clerke of the ol Melville d times .

    in ma Scotland ny a reader , that , young will kindle and old the , and imagination satisfy the of taste for excitement . Mrs . Melville ingenious ^

    but weaves it fact ht and to fiction be added into her that web there of romance is more , fact than oug fiction . Mrs . Melville , while never

    turbulent Ftraining pas for t live effect ag , ain contrives for us , and to make gives the us pome choice pieces of Scottish and alpine

    exaggeration scenery The style . is The thoroughly , and characters are old consistent - are fashioned drawn throug . without hout .

    From Messrs . Smith * Elder So Co . ' Dictionary of National Biography / edited by Leslie

    and p St resent ephen maintains volume and Sidnejr the extends high Lee standard from . Vol Gray . of XXIII to excellence Haighton . The , fc „ ' , ' —

    which marked the preceding volumes -., . -, Leslie Stephen writes with all his customarv Mr and lucidity

    a Thomas Step cumen hen ill d H oes not Gree think n , th on e Gray ri philosopher ght , the bla poet . ' Mr the nd

    unfortunate eighteenth century for m Grav e s barrenness , as he would probablhave found

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    calls y warran him ' the . most We learned of all Mr our . Stephen poets ' Canon Creighton gives us succinct — — "" - »«— studies % j of

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    unnecessary 4 on to enumerate where Grey . all But is good it is . The Dictionary of - National Biograph' has

    and become littl indispensabl e wonder •< for e to its every mass scholar of O information ' ¦" ' s library y 1 ACLO , is simply stupendous , .

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    impor open tan to t ^ because sorts — of the criticism descri — ^ j ptions ^— — , still — — were it is written very s « KS from ac — tual survey — of the various buildings W V Hb

    described . Its value ^ . " is enhanced " — — too - _~ - b ^ y -. r W ^ ^ the ^^ ^^ fac restore - — t that — r has - in man been - _ - - _ - _— y inst at - _ - _ - work — ance - - ~ s again — * F ^^ the J — — band ¦ upon ^~ ~ - ~* of the ^ ' m ^ " ^™ the ^^ . s ^« e ^^ r

    buildings and spoilt much that existed at the beginning of the century . ' From Messrs . Swan Sonnenschein & Co . —

    * Chess Problems : their Composition and { Soluto tion popu / by l arise James problem Rayner composition . This book and is intended solution

    among young chess players ; and to such as are pro beg ve inning helpful the . stud Mr . y Rayner of chess writes it cannot out of fail the to

    fulness of knowledge . From the same . —* Mad Doctors , ' by One of Them .

    of This asylum pamp hlet hysicians is announced against as recent ' being aspersions a defence cast ^^ v ^^ ^ vV on ^ i ^ ¦ " them »»^ ^^ v aiw ^ v ^ v ^ m a ^ m ^^ r ^ nd ^« w > ^ an ^ p ^^ ^^^* m examination bV - ¦¦ tfbB ^ . ^ w ~ m ^ r . ^ into - ~ ' - ^ ' the — ^^ ^ ^^ , ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ . ^^ . ^ ^^ ^ . ^^^^ ^^ ^

    fun with cti a ons sche of me the of Lunacy lunacy reform Commission ; ' , together further , ¦ the % k writer announces m * v % jK ^ h that ' ¦ We want rmt to teach

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    remarkable than his candour . A medical man professional himself , he has brethren not too , and strong the a object faith of in this his The

    book is to show some of their mistakes . statements MVIAtV author UVdivM writes are clearl reliable y and medical AU Wl forcibly science ¦¦ ; and is if not his

    at all what U >| , it is VAAUIVAV thought to > VIAA be »* * > . * ^ - ^ * The ^^ ^*^ ~ " book deserves attention , and will likely cause some

    controversy . From Messrs . Vizetelly & Oo . ~* Songs of the __ ¦_¦_

    Robert " Governing B . Brough Classes . , " This and is other a new L edition yrics , ' by of a work by one of the wittiest and quaintest v « of

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 15, 1890, page 872, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15071890/page/20/