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Much light is thrown on many of our old-fashioned customs, such as 

 eating Pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, Cross-Buns on Good Friday, the Michael- 

 mas Goose, Mince-Pies at Christmas, etc., and on the forms and ceremonies 

 customary on many of the Saints' Days ; Marriage Customs and Ceremonies, 

 Customs at Deaths, Sports and Games, Omens, Charms, Divinations, and 

 very many other things too numerous to mention. The book is not only well 

 worth reading, but should be kept as a book of reference with respect to those 

 old wives' sayings that we so often meet with. It is capitally illustrated'. 



Exercises in Arithmetic. By the Rev. T. Dalton, M.A., 

 Assistant Master at Eton College. Crown 8vo, pp. 152. (London : John 

 Murray. 1888.) 



This is one of the Eton Mathematical Series, and is designed to provide 

 exercises for work out of school. It is published without answers, but the 

 answers may be obtained from the publishers on the bonQ,-fide application of 

 any schoolmaster or teacher. Pages i to 130 each contain ten questions of a 

 miscellaneous character ; pages 131 to 140 are of a selected nature ; the rest 

 are selected questions from Cambridge, Oxford, and other examination papers. 



The Diseases of the Bible. By Sir Risdon Bennett, M.D., 

 LL.D., F.R.S. Crown 8vo, pp. 144. (London: Religious Tract Society. 

 1887.) Price 2s. 6d. 



We are glad to find that learned men of the present day are doing much 

 to elucidate certain portions of Holy Writ, and to show that there is no real 

 antagonism between Biblical records and 19th century science. The region 

 into which the talented author conducts us is one to which the ordinary reader 

 is seldom admitted. The work before us is divided into seven chapters, and 

 treats of Leprosy ; Plague and Epidemic Diseases ; Ophthalmic Diseases and 

 Blindness ; Diseases of the Nervous System ; Diseases of Job, Herod, Ileze- 

 kiah, Jeroboam, and the Shunamite's Wife's Son ; Old Age ; and the Physical 

 Cause of the Death of Christ. In the Appendix Fiery Serpents are spoken of. 



The Evangelisation of the World. Crown 8vo, pp. 242, 



(London : Morgan and Scott.) 



Shows what good work may be done by an earnest band of Christian 

 workers. The photographs and other illustrations (many of them being from 

 photographs) are exceedingly well executed. The book is full of interest. 



Gospel Ethnology. By S. R. Pattison. Post 8vo, pp. viii, 

 — 226. (London : The Religious Tract Society.) Price 5s. 



This little book, which contains upwards of thirty typical representations 

 of the human race, from as many different portions of the world, treats of the 

 Physical Unity of Man and the Spiritual Unity of Man ; then of the three 

 types of Black Races of Men accepting the Bible ; fifteen types of Yellow 

 Races ; and fourteen types of Jkown and White Races. The illustrations, 

 many of them full page, are very good. 



The Gospel in Nature : Scripture Truths illustrated by 



Facts from Nature. By Henry C. McCook, D.D., with an Introduction by 

 W. Carruthers, President of the Linn^ean Society, F.R.S., etc. Crown 8vo, 

 pp. xii. — 416. (London r Hodder and Stoughton. 188S.) 



A very fresh volume of discourses, thoroughly evangelical in tone, in 

 which carefully-ascertained facts, gathered from a wide field of nature, 

 are used as illustrations of spiritual truths. The standpoint of the writer is 



