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Ballads and other Verse. By A. H. Beesley (Assistaut-Mastcr at 



Marlborougli Collngo). Loudon. Longmans. 1895. 



Several of the ballads in this volume deservedly attracted much attention on 

 their appearance in Longmans Magas^ine a year or two ago. They are full 

 of life and vigour, as befits verse that deals with such stirring themes as Sir 

 Christopher Mings and his three days' fight with the Dutch in 166G, and the 

 daring capture of Mont Ceuis in 1792 by Dumas and his little band of 

 mountaineers. There is one amongst them which we may venture to claim for 

 Wilts — Stone-hrohe, a most pathetic poem, not unworthy of Hood himself, 

 which earned honourable mention at a County Council meeting not long ago, 

 telling how an old stone-breaker worked on all through the bitter winter 

 weather, rather than go into the House, and how he died as his heap was 

 finished. The " other verse " is of varied character, ranging from such themes 

 as An Agnostic s Apology, or a fine chorus from Hecuba, to breezy whaling 

 and ploughing songs. The volume throughout shows " a high, though often 

 sombre, sense of life and duty," and stands in workmanship and inspiration 

 far above the average of modern verse. It was noticed in the Marlburian, 

 4th April, 1895. 



Progressive Eevelation, or through. Natui-e to Grod, by E. M. 

 Caillard, author of " Electricity : the Science of the Nineteenth Century " ; 

 "The Invisible Powers of Nature," &c. John Murray, Albemarle Street, 

 London. 1895. Price 6*. Miss Emma Marie Caillard has thrown together 

 in this book a series of essays published in the Contemporary Revieio, with 

 an introductory chapter. Favourably reviewed in Devizes Gazette, May 16th, 

 1895. 



Latiu Letter from the Bishop of Salisbury to the Archbishop of 

 Utrecht, on the position of the Anglican Church. A long notice and 

 translation in the Guardian, November 14th, 1894, and Salisbury Diocesan 

 Gazette, January, 1895. 



" The Form and Manner of the Making of Deacons and Ordaining 

 of Priests." Edited for use at ordinations by Clifford Wyndham Holgate, 

 M.A. Salisbury. Brown & Co. 8vo. Cloth. 1894. Favourably noticed 

 in Salisbury Journal, December iSth, 1894, and Salisbury Diocesan 

 Gaxette, February, 1895. 



