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Lady Missionaries in Foreign Lands. By Mrs. E. R. 



Pitman. Post 8vo, pp. i6o. (London: S. W. Partridge and Co.) Price is. 6d. 



This book contains a short, interesting sketch of the lives of Mrs. Ann 

 Judson, of Burmah ; Mrs. Johnson, of the West Indies ; Mrs. Gobat, of 

 Abyssinia and Jerusalem ; Mrs. Wilkinson, of Zululand ; and of Mrs. Cargill, 

 of the Friendly Islands and Fiji. 



These ladies, unlike many of the lady Missionaries of the present day, were 

 all the wives of Missionaries, and were admirable help- meets to their husbands 

 in Missionary work. The book is illustrated with portraits of these ladies, and 

 also views of places in which they laboured. The book is calculated to stir up 

 others to follow in the footsteps of these pioneers of Mission work. 



The Great Authors of English Literature. Crown 8vo, 



pp. 8io. (London : Nelson and Sons. 1889.) Price 3s. 6d. 



This book gives the lives and specimens of the productions of the Great 

 Authors of Enghsh Literature, from Chaucer to Macaulay and Browning. It is 

 divided into three parts. The first from Chaucer to Pope ; the second from 

 Goldsmith to Wordsworth ; and the third from Macaulay to Browning. 



The lives of the authors are short but clear, and the account of the works 

 is instructive and helpful. The specimens of the authors' works fairly represent 

 the style and ability of the writers, though, of course, they are not always those 

 that the reader may think the masterpieces. No one can read this book with- 

 out profit, 



Earthquakes. Translated from the French of Arnold 

 Boscowitz. By C. B. Pitman. Post 8vo, pp. xviii. — 395. (London : George 

 Routledge and Sons. 1890.) Price 5s. 



A very interesting and instructive book, on a rather uncomfortable subject. 

 It gives a history of Earthquakes from that which seems to have destroyed 

 Sodom and Gomorrah, up to those which happened in 1884 in Ischia and 

 Andalusia. The author discusses various theories with regard to the causes 

 of Earthquakes. The book is plentifully illustrated, and most of the illustra- 

 tions are exceedingly good. 



Bancroft's Works, Vol. XXXVIL : Popular Tribunals, 



Vol. II. Roy. 8vo, pp. viii. — 772. (ban Francisco : The History Publishing 

 Company. 1887.) 



This fine work is the second of the series treating on Popular Tribunals. In 

 Vol. I., which we noticed in our last issue, a few chapters were devoted to law, 

 justice, and tribunals ; the narrative was taken up at the period of the discovery 

 of gold in California, it was then continued up to the year 1856, when it was 

 followed into other cities. The volume before us is devoted in a great measure 

 to the Grand Tribunal of San Francisco in 1858, which was perhaps the largest 

 and most important of the kind the world has ever known. 



In this volume, as in all others of the series, we are struck with the 

 masterly powers exhibited by the great historian. 



Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences : A yearly 



report of the Progress of the General Sanitary Sciences throughout the world. 

 Edited by Charles E. Sajous, M.D., and seventy associate editors. 5 Vols. 

 Roy. 8vo. (Philadephia, New York, and London : F. A. Davies. 1889.) 



This important work has for its object to review the progress of Medicine 

 of the Universe ; the volumes before us form the second of the series, the first 

 being published in 1888. 



Many improvements which have suggested themselves have been made in 



