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LAST month we gave the names of a few of the best of the many hundred gift-books which the publishers have recently been issuing in such profusion. This month it only remains to suggest a few more that our readers will be quite safe in buying. The illustration on this page is one of two or three dozen similar which Mr. Edmund J. Sullivan (whose success in this kind of book is no

less rapid than deserved) has done for an illustrated edition of Sheridan's two comedies, "The School for Scandal" and "The Rivals," just issued in the charming Cranford series (Macmillan, 6s.). A short introduction to the plays is the work of Mr. Augustine Birrell, Q.C, M.P. Of similar size is Mr. Rudyard Kipling's "Soldier Tales," (Macmillan, 6s) -a collection, of course, from previous volumes -illustrated extremely cleverly by Mr. A. S. Hartrick. There are seven of the Tommy Atkins stories in the book. Last year "The Pageant" was one of the finest ofChristmas books. It is to be an annual, apparently, for it appears with new contents this year (Henry, 6s. net). We have no space here for a statement of all it contains of literary and artistic interest, but we can mention that Mr. Austin Dobson, Mr. Gosse, Professor York Powell, Mr. Max Beerbohm, and Dr. Garnett are among the writers, and that the illustrations are reproduced from the work of Rossetti, Sir Edward BurneJones, M. Puvis de Chavannes, Mr. Watts, Mr.

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There is a companion volume to the "Pageant " addressed especially to children. Its title is "The Parade" (Henry, 5s. net), and it most certainly is a delightful budget of stories and pictures. "Phil May's Gutter-Snipes" (Field and Tuer, 2s. 6d.) is another book we must mention. It is a collection of drawings from Mr. May's inimitable pencil of the poor children of the

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QUEEN OF SWORDS' MINUET AT LADY SNEERWELL'S." (From "The School for Scandal.")

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Strang, and Mr. Rothenstein, among others. certainly the gift-book for any one who wishes to get into that mysterious state known as being "in the movement" -the artistic variety is meant, of course. A new edition of Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" (Service, 2s. 6d.), illustrated by Mr. F. H. Townsend, is wonderfully cheap and effective; while two other smaller books not unsuitable as gift-books for adults are "The Poems of Robert Herrick" (Dent, 2s. 6d. net), in the delightful Lyric Poets series, and "The Kipling Birthday Book" (Macmillan, 2s. 6d.), published with Mr. Kipling's authorisation.

London streets, full of his own humour, and yet thoroughly realistic.

Marie Corelli's
Dislikes.

THE Lady's Realm for December contains Marie Corelli's autograph, in which, in her own handwriting, her worshippers will be able to supplement the abundant information contained in her stories as to her dislikes. Here are a few of them:

The Man who is his own God Almighty.

The Woman who cannot consecrate her life purely and faithfully to one great love passion. Women - Bicyclists and He-Females generally. Tuft-hunters and Worshippers of Royalty. American Millionaires. William Archer and his god Ibsen.

Society Noodles.

Ladies of title who allow their portraits to be on sale in the shops for any cad to buy.

"The Woman wl:o Did."

But that which she dislikes most of all, she tells us, is moral cowardice.

A Lecture Bureau. MR. A. J. I. GLIDDON, of 90 and 91, Queen Street, Cheapside, London, informs me that he has made a promising beginning this winter in the organisation of a Lecturers' Bureau, an institution which has never flourished very much on this side of the Atlantic, but which has become quite an institution in the United States. He has some seventy or eighty names of lecturers on his list, by whom he is empowered to enter into any engagements in any part of the country. He also organises meetings for the Armenians and others who need to have the preliminary work taken off their shoulders. He has even ventured to dream of enlarging the scope of his agency so far as to undertake to supply speakers for public meetings.

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Nordahl Rolfsen. 12s. 6d.

By W. C. Brogger and

Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia. 10s. 6d. net.

By F. C. Selous. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle. By Clement K. Shorter. 7s. 6d.

Some of these you have already receive, but Mr. Kipling's "The Seven Seas" (Methuen, 6s.) is new, and so is Mr. William Archer's opportune translation of the Norwegian "life" of Dr. Nansen (Longmans, 12s. 6d.), a handsomely illustrated volume, with maps. Then there is Mr. F. C. Selous's " 'Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia" (Rowland Ward, 10s. 6d. net). You know the great African Nimrod, who handles the pen as skilfully as the brush, and who ranks as foremost among the great hunters of the world. He has been through the Matabele insurrection. He is thoroughly honest. As an unimpeachable witness this handsome illustrated narrative is simply indispensable to all those who wish to know things as they are in Rhodesia. Mr. Selous is no enemy of the Boers, neither is he a special eulogist of Mr. Rhodes. He is a just eye-witness, who sets down nought in malice and who records the dreadful incidents of a native rising and its suppression with a candour almost brutal in its frankness. For Mr. Selous wrote when the fierce passion roused by the massacre was still hot within him, and he expresses much more vigorously than wisely the feeling of many as to the theory that the Matabele" are not men and brothers, but monsters in human shape, to be shot down mercilessly like wild dogs or hyænas." You will find the book a genuine photograph of life in Rhodesia, not bowdlerised and toned down to accord with the ideals of Exeter Hall.

The largest book in your parcel, and the handsomest, is Mrs. Cashel Hoey's translation of M. Émile Bourgeois' "The Century of Louis XIV.: its Arts-its Ideas" (Low, 52s. 6d.), a review of the seventeenth century in France, as depicted in its literature and its art. The Great Century lives again in its pages, and M. Bourgeois, although specially disclaiming the idea of writing a history, enables the dry bones of history to live again. The elaborate illustrations-over five hundred in number, reproduced both by photogravure and ordinary process-form one of the chief attractions of this costly and admirable volume. Professor Charles M. Andrews's" The Historical Development of Modern Europe from the Congress of Vienna to the Present Time" is a serious contribution to modern history, of which the first part (Putnam, 12s. 6d.), dealing with the period between 1815 and 1850, has just appeared. It has a map as frontispiece. A new volume of the Famous Scots Series is Miss Blantyre Simpson's life of her father "Sir James Y. Simpson" (Oliphant, 1s. 6d.). Historical and antiquarian research of a curious kind is the subject of Mr. John Ashton's "The Devil in Britain and America" (Ward and Downey, 21s.), a volume profusely illustrated from

old woodcuts and prints. The author has attempted -with considerable success, if interest goes for aught"to give a succinct account of demonology and witchcraft" in the two countries.

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Half-a-dozen books will appeal irresistibly to the student of political and social science, and of these the third volume of Mr. Herbert Spencer's "Principles of Sociology" (Williams and Norgate, 16s.), forming the eighth and concluding volume of his "System of Synthetic Philosophy," claims the first place. Indeed, to many this, the conclusion of Mr. Spencer's life-work, will be the most important literary production of the year. "On looking back over the six-and-thirty years which have passed since the Synthetic Philosophy was commenced," says the philosophier in his preface, “I am surprised at my audacity in undertaking it, and still more surprised by its completion." However, "sometimes a forlorn hope is justified by the event,” and we can congratulate ourselves that the "purpose" of his life was fulfilled. It has left its mark on its century, and its influence will continue, to whatever degree the conclusions of the Philosophy are accepted in centuries to come, just as long as earnest, reverent, and adequatelyequipped research have use and honour among us. eighth volume of Mr. Charles Booth's "Life and Labour of the People in London" (Macmillan, 7s. 6d. net), a continuation of the section devoted to "Population Classified by Trades," has appeared; and of similar interest is the new volume of the Social Questions of To-day Series, Mr. Arthur Sherwell's "Life in West London: a Study and a Contrast" (Methuen, 2s. 6d.), a careful and outspoken "analysis of the conditions of life-social, industrial, and moral-in a particular district"-Soho, to wit "Glasgow: its Municipal Organisation and Administration" (Maclehose, Glasgow), by Sir James Bell, Bart., and Mr. James Paton, is intended, first, as a picture of Glasgow municipal life in particular, and, secondly, as a comprehensive view of the various means through and by which the complex work of a great corporation is carried on, and the intimate relation in which these and their result stand to the health, happiness, and prosperity of the citizens. Then you will also find a collection of "Lord Rosebery's Speeches (1874-1896)" (Beeman, 6s.), and Mr. Richard Jenery-Shee's translation from the Italian of "Socialism and Catholicism" (Longmans, 6s.), by Count Edward Soderini, a work stated by Cardinal Vaughan, in the preface he contributes, to be "the best and fullest commentary on the Encyclical Rerum Novarum that has appeared in Italy"; and he even goes on to say that the translator has" provided for English-speaking Catholics one of the best, if not the very best, handbook on the Social Question to be found in their language"!

One book of travel, and one only, I have to send, but the interest of that one is extreme. It is "The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush" (Lawrence, 31s. 6d.), by Sir George Robertson, the British Agent at Gilgit, and the man whose name will be for ever identified with the heroic defence of Chitral. Káfiristan had long evaded the curiosity of travellers, and it required courage and skill, resource and constant readiness before Dr. Robertson (as he then was) could succeed in penetrating to its recesses and laying bare its secrets. Altogether this is an extremely notable volume, and its interest is increased by the numerous illustrations by Mr. A. D. McCormick. In science, a sixth volume has appeared of the splendid

"Royal Natural History" (Warne, 9s. net), which under the editorship of Mr. Lydekker is making such excellent progress. It deals with the various invertebrate animals, and is illustrated with good coloured plates and a large number of engravings in the text. Gleanings from the Natural History of the Ancients" (Stock, 3s. 6d. net), by the Rev. M. G. Watkins, is the first volume of the Antiquary's Library, and is a very interesting treatment of a curious and abstruse but none the less entertaining subject. Science and religion meet in Dr. Charles Crosslegh's The Bible in the Light of To-day" (S. P. C. K., 3s. 6d.), an attempt "to indicate the lines on which it is possible to hold the Bible to be divine" and "to present some of the results of an independent application of principles, long since laid down by Bishop Butler, to the question of its authority."

Mr. G. W. Steevens's "Monologues of the Dead" (Methuen, 3s. 6d.) has that kind of literary and historical interest that warrants my placing it among volumes of essays, rather than with fiction or history. I am not sure that the author has not produced a book worthy to stand beside the "Imaginary Conversations" of Walter Savage Landor. A brilliant literary gift, real scholarship, and distinct feeling for the realisation of character have gone to the making of these soliloquies monologues spoken, in their habit as they lived, by a number of the mighty dead from Troilus and the Mother of the Gracchi to Cæsar, Nero, and Constantine the Great. Mr. Steevens has concentrated, and focussed, whole histories into these little sketches: each is a brilliant tour de force, and each will help to the fit appreciation of its subject. Above all, the book is useful in that its reader will--often for the first time--understand that these great personalities of history are human first, historical afterwards. Lucullus finishes his monologue with a hiccuppel cry to his serving-man to "ser-serve the emetic "; the Mother of the Gracchi harps continually on the worry of housekeeping, and her gratitude that in so "terribly dissipated and corrupt a day her sons were "both honourable Roman gentlemen." Then there is Mr. L. F. Austin's "At Random" (Ward and Lock, 3s. 6d.), a collection of the very delightful papers-real causeries--on life and his own personality-which he has contributed to the Speaker and the Sketch. Literary criticism, the humour of the London streets, the stage-all alike are grist to Mr. Austin's mill. He has done well to reprint its finest productions: the result is a real treat to every lover of the lighter forms of English prose and English life. The new edition of Mr. George Moore's "Modern Painting" (Scott, 6s.) has been so considerably enlarged that it should be mentioned here. It contains several new studies, and, as frontispiece, a photogravure reproduction of Manet's portrait of Mr. Moore. "Modern Painting' is, in the absence of a collection of " D. S. M.'s" contributions to art criticism, the one book in which one can learn of that new spirit which, for better or worse, is making such deep impression among our younger artists. Mr. James E. Matthew's "The Literature of Music (Stock, 4s. 6d.) is the last volume of the Book-Lover's Library.

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Among recent new editions nothing has been more pleasurable than the new series, the Temple Classics, which is appearing under the editorship of Mr. Israel Gollancz. Each volume will contain, apparently, about as much matter as a Golden Treasury volume (although slightly smaller in size), but unlike that series it will contain no editorial introduction, and but the briefest of notes. Wordsworth's "The Prelude " (Dent, 1s. 6d. net) is the first book in the series, and after it comes a

reprint of Southey's "Life of Nelson." Each has a photogravure frontispiece, and in details of type and binding is altogether charming, and certainly wonderfully cheap. Another series just begun at the Aldine House is a continuation in some sense of the "Temple Shakespeare." The "Temple Dramatists," again under the editorship of the erudite Mr. Gollancz, begins with an unexpurgated and delightfully produced reprint of Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" (Dent, 1s. net). Uniform in size and shape with the " Temple Shakespeare," this new series is to contain all the most famous plays of the old dramatists.

Novels have to some extent been crowded out of the field this month by the throng of other fiction intended specially for Christmas. Dr. Conan Doyle's "Rodney Stone" (Smith and Elder, 6s.) is, however, the kind of book to make any month notable. In his preface Dr. Doyle speaks of his "endeavour to draw various phases of life and character in England at the beginning of the century," and certainly his endeavour has not been in vain. Those early years live again in his exciting story, and even the prize-ring regains some of its ancient glory in his description of the fight between Crab Wilson and Jack Harrison. The story is full of the old glory of England, and as it is illustrated could hardly be bettered as a Christmas present for "a growing lad." Mr. Justin Huntly McCarthy's "The Royal Christopher" (Chatto, 3s. 61.) deserves something of the same kind of success. Dedicated to "My dear Anthony Hope Hawkins," in gratitude "for hours of pleasure in the company of Rudolph Rassendyll" and others, it is romance pure and simple, and romance as good as one is likely to get. Mrs. Molesworth's "Uncanny Tales" (Hutchinson, 3s. 6d.) are, generally speaking, sentimental rather than uncanny, but they will help to pass away an idle hour; while the interest of Mr. Frederick Wedmore's "Orgeas and Miradon, with Other Pieces" (Bowden, 3s. 6d.), is that of literature rather than of ordinary fiction. Character and style are the notes of Mr. Wedmore's work: reticent, elegant, urbane, his work always is. It has charm and flavour and sentiment, and these short stories are no exception to the rule. Alien," who wrote "A Daughter of the King," has produced a new novel in" In Golden Shackles" (Hutchinson, 6s.); Major Arthur Griffiths's "The Rome Express" (Milne, 2s. 6d.) is sensational enough to keep many an eager reader from his bed; Mr. Charles Grant's "Stories of Naples and the Camorra' (Macmillan, 6s.) displays a wonderfully intimate knowledge of Italian life on its poorer sides, and no small power of character-drawing; while Mr. Elwyn Thomas's The Martyrs of Hell's Highway" (Allenson, 3s. 6d.), frankly announced as "a novel with a purpose," and dealing with "the unhappy victims of the great social evil," has the advantage of a preface and appendix by Mrs. Josephine Butler. A new author appears in Miss Elizabeth Holland, whose "The Evolution of a Wife: A Romance in Six Parts" (Milne, 6s.) is distinctly worth reading. Miss Holland is lucky in her provocative title.

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You may remember my sending you, a year or two ago, the remarkable novel, "A Superfluous Woman;' you will, therefore, turn eagerly to the new book by the same authoress in your present parcel. "Life the Accuser" (Heinemann, 15s. net), although a threevolume novel, is not a long story, but a very painful one. "Life the Accuser" has Life as its real authorMiss Brooke merely held the pen. The characters live, and move, and perish before our eyes. I can well believe that the accidents, and certainly the motif, of this bitter

tragedy were all supplied from life. The pen of the authoress has been dipped in her own heart's blood, and her page is blotted with many tears. The scene between the stainless but human wife and her guilty husband is original and almost unique. For the wife to remind the husband that she also is a creature of like passions with himself, and that she, although equally tempted has, neverthless, not slipped, is a mode of proceeding which in olden days would have been deemed utterly inconceivable. But in Miss Brooke's hands the scene is conceivable enough, and infinitely more true to nature than the usual interview between icicled virtue and lawless passion.

THE BABY EXCHANGE.

TO BE DISCONTINUED.

I AM Sorry to have to announce that next year I shall not continue the Baby Exchange. The risks are to> great. I have made an honest attempt to see if it were possible to act as intermediary between the owners of superfluous babies and childless homes. I have proved its possibility, and there can be no doubt as to the urgent need for some such agency. But the sudden and unexpected return of one of the adopted children on my hands, owing to the adopting father, whose character had been vouched for by unimpeachable authorities, falling before temptation and losing his means of livelihood, compelled me to reconsider the position. I have no hospital or institution to serve as temporary resting-place for the inevitable percentage of "returns." Yet some such home, it becomes more and more evident, is indispensable for the proper working of the Exchange. I have, however, other work to do than founding and managing such an institution. Neither have I any desire to find myself after a time saddled with the sole responsibility for the maintenance and education of unwanted babies whose parents have disappeared, and whose adopted parents, despite all legal undertakings to the contrary, return the adopted child upon my hands.

Hence, although I shall continue from time to time to arrange for the adoption of such children as are already on offer, I shall not in future advertise the Exchange or endeavour to extend its operations. As I have already said, the risk is too great.

The following is the report handed me by the lady managing the Exchange as to the net result up to date:

In the fourteen months we have carried on the work systematically we have got thirty-five children, i.e., nineteen girls and sixteen boys, successfully adopted. These children have been adopted by true lovers of children, who have taken them as their own children purely for love's sake. Therefore one hundred and five people have been benefited-seventy foster parents and thirty-five children. Even if we deduct the few unmarried people who have adopted children-and they are very few, not more than five-we still can count that the homes of sixty-five people have been brightened, and a hundred lives benefited for life, by the work of the Baby Exchange. That is not a bad record for fourteen months.

In the course of this time we have had one hundred and twenty-two applications for children from foster parents, and one hundred and sixty-five children on our books. The reason we have not been able to satisfy the cravings for children of more of these would-be parents, is the immense amount of correspondence involved in each case, also the confidential nature of the work, which compels the work to be entirely done by the one person put in charge of it.

That the work neels doing, and is absolutely good, when done as it has been done by this bureau, is abundantly proved by this department in the short time it has been in existence It seems shocking that people who have loving hearts and

abundant means to support children, should be unable to find some among the great crowd of unwanted little ones to supply the blank in their hearts and homes occasioned by their having no children of their own.

If there exists a woman of means, or a few women of means, who would take up this work, which you have proved to be really needed, and who could carry it on under more convenient conditions than are possible in a publisher's office, where much other work is being done, they would be abundantly rewarded. This practical experiment proves the need and success of the work which can be done. Even the case which opens up the vista of possible difficulties in the future was perfectly bona fide. The foster-mother took the child from pure motherly love. Very likely she thought that if there was a child in the home her husband would be attracted from his gambling; but gambling is such a vice that, when once it lays hold of a man, neither wife nor child can stay the victim in his downward path. The little girl thus unmoored is likely to find a still better home with clients who have been waiting a long time for a child to suit them.

I do hope you will lay it on the heart of some woman or women, who are able to rise to the human sympathy required to carry on this work, to take it up where you are obliged to lay it down. You can commend the work to the loving care and co-operation of women, having proved what can be done.

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THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD "CAUCUS." "CAUCUS" is one of those words which everybody uses, but of which very few can tell whence it has come. explanation of its origin is given in the New England Magazine for November, by C. W. Ernst, who writes of "words coined in Boston." That mint of speech seems to have been early active.

It will be news to most of us that Massachusetts, which was, from 1634 to 1684, a Commonwealth, in name and fact, was the first civil government on earth to call itself by that name:

Ten years later, in 1649, Cromwell and England followed the precedent of Massachusetts and Connecticut, and an Act of Parliament made England "a Commonwealth and a Free State."

AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TRADE UNION.

The famous word which has become so current in politics arose about the middle of last century:

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The finance debate of the forties, when the Land Bank tried a hand at the issue of paper money, occasioned the word cauĽUS, which has become a part of the English language. To express confidence in the bills of the Land Bank, Sam Adams, the father of the patriot, organised a labour meeting. mechanics of those days were generally paid in what we call store orders. To get their wages in money, if only in paper bills, seemed attractive. So the calkers formed a labour union and trust,-the word trust is theirs,-binding themselves" under a penalty for the performance of their agreement," which was to the effect that they would take wages in merchandise or money only, money to include the notes of the Land Bank. This novel trust was perfected on Sunday, February 8, 1740, old style, and duly announc.d in the papers of the time. The effect may be imagined.

A labour union was a novelty in Boston; a labour trust occasioned something like consternation, particularly as it undertook to sustain the ominous Land Bank. Under Britishi law, such a trust was a crime. To get rid of the Land Bank, which was at the bottom of all this offending, the Boston merchants appealed to Parliament for relief, and obtained it. Yet the calkers held together, and their cast-iron agreement became a by-word for any agreement from which there was no receding. The phrase "calkers' agreement" was carried into politics, and by 1760 we read of "the old and true Corcas," meaning the mechanics, also of "the new and grand Corcas," meaning a committee of merchants who had adopted the method of the calkers. By 1763 we find the present spelling of caucus, the origin of the term falling into oblivion.

Nineteenth Century.

[For Complete Index to the Contents of November Magazines, see the "Monthly Index to Periodicals."

Abbreviations of Magazine Titles used in this Index, which is limited to the following periodicals.

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Natural Science.

Price 1d.]

N. Sc. Naut. M.

Nautical Magazine.

N. E. M.

New England Magazine.

N. I. R.

New Ireland Review.

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N. A. R.

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P. E. F.

P. M. M.

Pall Mall Magazine.

Phil. R.

P. L.

A. C. Q.

A. H.

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A.A. P. S.

Annals of the American Academy of

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P. M.

Irish Monthly

Jew. Q.

Jewish Quarteriy.

Journal of Education.

J. Micro.

Chambers's Journal.

Chautauquan.

Church Missionary Intelligencer.

Church Quarterly.

Contemporary Review,

Journal of Microscopy.

J.P. Econ. Journal of Political Economy.

J. R. A. S. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society.
J. R. C. I. Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute.
J. R. U. Journal of the Roya! United Service
S. I. Institution.

Juridical Review.

Lippincott's Monthly.

Jur. R.

C. R.

C. Cos. C. H.

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Library.

Dublin Review.

Lipp.

Economic Journal.

L. Q.

London Quarterly.

Economic Review.

Long.

Longman's Magazine.

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Lucifer.

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Abyssinia, see under Africa.

Advertising: The Evolution of the Poster, by Agnes C. Sage, Lipp, Dec.
Africa (see also Egypt, Egypt and the Soudan, Tunis):

The Italian-Abyssinian Treaty, by F. Harrison Smith, U S M, Dec.
President Krüger; White Man's Africa, by Poultney Bigelow, Harp, Dec.
The Native Problem in South Africa, by W. F. Bailey, Nat R, Dec.
Zanzibar, Sun H. Dec.

Agriculture (see also Articles under United States):

Causes of Agricultural Unrest, by Prof. J. L. Laughlin, A M, Nov. Alaska: Notes on the Yukon Country, by Alex. Begg, Scot G M, Nov. American History, see Contents of American Historica! Review. American People (see also Women):

American Provincialism, by Caroline M. Beaumont, Bkman A, Nov.

Anagrams, A. Inkersley on, Lipp, Dec.

Arbitration, International, see Peace and Disarmament.

Arc, Joan of, Andrew Lang on, E I, Dec.

Archæology, see Articles under Greece (Ancient); and Contents of Antiquary, Bye-Gones.

Architecture, (see also Contents of Architectural Record, Architectural Review, Architecture):

The Cantilever as applied to Building Construction, by J. B. Robinson, Eng M, Nov.

High Buildings in the United States, by A. L. A. Himmelwright, N A R, Nov.

Arctic Exploration: Dr. Nansen's Adventures in the Farthest North, by Cyrus
C. Adams, Mc Cl, Dec.

Armenia and the Armenian Question (see also Articles under Turkey):
The Immediate Future of Armenia, by W. K. Stride, F, Nov.
Armenian Exiles in Cyprus, by Emma Cons, C R, Dec.

Armies (see also Articles under Peace and Disarmament, Volunteers; and
Contents of Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, United Service
Magazine):

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Arnold, Matthew, G. Le Grys Norgate on, T B, Dec.

Arts and Crafts, see Glass, Pottery.

Asia Minor: A Journey in the Valley of the Upper Euphrates, by V. W. Yorke, G J, Nov.

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Bible and Biblical Criticism (see also Contents of Expository Times, Eomiletic
Review):

Can We have an Infallible Revelation? by Rev. T. E. Allen, A, Nov.
Jesus and the Apostles, by Prof. J. R. Buchanan, A, Nov.

What Language did Christ speak? by Mrs. A. S. Lewis and Wm. H. Ward,
C M, Dec.

Bible Printing and Distributing, C J, Dec.

Bible in Schools, Religious Education:

Denominational Schools and the Government, by Rev. J. Frome Wilkinson, Nat R, Dec.

The Education Bill from the Old Nonconformist Standpoiut, by H. M. Bompas, F R, Dec.

Bimetallism, see under Finance.

Birds (see also Article under Duck-Shooting):

Birds and Man, by W. H. Hudson, Long, Dec. Sea-Birds at Home, by R. B. Lodge, W M, Nov.

Bismarck, Prince, see under Germany.

Blickling Hall, Norfolk, Rev. A. H. Malan on, P M M, Dec. Blondin; Interview, by W. B. Robertson, CF M, Dec. Books:

A Raid among Books, Black, Dec.

On the Selling of Books, by J. Shaylor, N C, Dec.

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