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Helps to Godly Living was the title of devotional 

 extracts from the writings and addresses of Arch- 

 bishop Frederick Temple, selected and arranged 

 by J. H. Burn; The Trial of Jesus Christ was 

 the subject of a legal monograph by Alexander 

 Taylor Innes ; Andrew Martin Fairbairn, D. D., 

 wrote on Catholicism, Roman and Anglican; and 

 George Cusack waved The Red Rag of Ritual in 

 a witty and caustic satire. The Quest of Faith 

 was pursued by T. Bailey Saunders; The Teach- 

 ings of the Books proved to be a work of col- 

 laboration by Herbert L. Willett and James M. 

 Campbell on the literary structure and spiritual 

 interpretation of the books of the New Testa- 

 ment; Edgar C. S. Gibson edited The Book of 

 Job with an introduction and notes; and to E. 

 A. Wallis Budge we were indebted for The Earli- 

 est Known Coptic Psalter, edited from the Unique 

 Papyrus Codex, Oriental 5,000 in the British 

 Museum, the text being in the dialect of upper 

 Egypt. Authority and Archaeology, Sacred and 

 Profane, was the title of essays on the relation 

 of monuments to biblical and classical literature, 

 by Samuel Rolles Driver, D. D., E. A. Gardner, 

 and others, and the same theme was pursued in 

 Light from the East: or, The Witness of the 

 Monuments, an introduction to the study of 

 biblical archaeology, by Rev. C. J. Ball. The life 

 and customs of Babylonians and Assyrians were 

 described by Rev. Archibald H. Sayce in the 

 Semitic Series, and from E. A. Wallis Budge we 

 liad two books upon Egyptian Ideas of the Fu- 

 ture Life and Egyptian Magic. Canon W. C. 

 E. Newbolt added Religion to the Oxford Library 

 of Practical Theology; Public-school Sermons of 

 Dr. Henry Montagu Butler were collected into a 

 volume; S. A. Alexander outlined The Christian- 

 ity of St. Paul; and James Drummond was the 

 author of the second number of International 

 Handbooks to the New Testament upon the Epis- 

 tles of Paul the Apostle. Stones Rolled Away 

 and The New Evangelism were two collections 

 of sermons and addresses by the late Henry 

 Drummond. The Conversion of the Maoris was 

 described by Rev. Donald MacDougall. Vol. I 

 of A Dictionary of the Bible, edited by James 

 Hastings, D. D., covered A-Feasts, and Vol. II, 

 Feign-Kinsman. A Short History of Free 

 Thought, Ancient and Modern, came from John 

 M. Robertson, and From Comte to Benjamin Kidd, 

 by Robert Mackintosh, D. D., presented the ap- 

 peal to biology or evolution for human guidance. 

 Faith Healing and Christian Science were dis- 

 cussed by Alice Feilding. Roman Canon Law in 

 the Church of England was the subject of six 

 assays by Frederic William Maitland. 



Books of a miscellaneous character worth men- 

 tioning include Field Artillery with the Other 

 Arms, by Major E. S. May, and a Text-book of 

 Theoretical Naval Architecture, by E. L. Atwood, 

 assistant constructor in the English royal navy, 

 both technical in character; The Ship: Her Story, 

 by William Clark Russell; Idylls of the Sea and 

 The Way they have in the Navy, by Frank T. 

 Bullen ; Naval Yarns, by W. H. Long ; Medical 

 W T orks of the Fourteenth 'Century, by Dean George 

 Henslow, with a list of plants recorded in con- 

 temporary writings, with their identifications; a 

 work on Tropical Diseases, by Patrick Mason, 

 M. D. ; A Book about Bells, by Rev. G. S. Tyack ; 

 Old Clocks and Watches, and their Makers, by 

 Frederick James Britten; The Right to bear 

 Arms, a work on heraldry, by X; Dancing in All 

 Ages, by Edward Scott; Wood and Garden, by 

 Gertrude Jekyll; Our Gardens, by Dean Samuel 

 Reynolds Hole, in the Haddon Hall Library; My 

 Hoses and How I Grew Them, by Helen Milman 



(Mrs. Caldwell Oof ton) ; Fruit Culture for Ama- 

 teurs, by P. T. Wright; and The Illustrated Dic- 

 tionary of Gardening, by George* Nicholson, in 

 four volumes. Vol. Ill was issued of Modern 

 Opera Houses and Theaters, by Edwin O. Sachs, 

 with supplement; Arthur Shadwell dwelt upon 

 The London Water Supply; and Sidney Barwise 

 wrote on The Purification of Sewage. Rev. G. 

 C. Bateman and R. A. R. Bennett were joint au- 

 thors of The Book of Aquaria, and W. A. S. 

 Westoby sent out Vol. I of The Adhesive Postage 

 Stamps of Europe. Railway Block Signaling, by 

 James Pigg, explained the principles of train sig- 

 naling and apparatus for insuring safety. The 



Alleged Haunting of B House, including a 



journal kept during the tenancy by Col. Lemesu- 

 rier Taylor, was edited by A. Goodrich Freer 

 (Miss X) and John, Marquess of Bute. Solo 

 Whist had its whys and wherefores explained by 

 C. J. Melrose. A History of Steeple Chasing 

 came from William C. A. Blew, the author of 

 The Quorn Hunt and its Masters; T. F. Dale 

 wrote The History of the Belvoir Hunt, and also 

 contributed the first volume of a new series of 

 the Library of Sports, devoted to Riding, Driving, 

 and Kindred Sports. G. A. B. Dewar wrote on 

 The South Country Trout Streams for the An- 

 gler's Library, Fly Fishing in the Haddon Hall 

 Library was by Sir E. Grey, and The Rabbit was 

 added by J. E. Harting to the Fur, Feather, and 

 Fin Series. Seven Lectures on the Law and His- 

 tory of Copyright in Books, by Augustine Bir- 

 rell, were collected into a volume, and from Sir 

 Sherston Baker we had First Steps in Interna- 

 tional Law. 



Voyages and Travels. Owing to the out- 

 break of the war in South Africa a third edition 

 was sent out of Hon. James Bryce's Impressions 

 of South Africa, with a new prefatory chapter 

 dealing with the events which have induced the 

 present crisis, and a new edition of Capt. Young- 

 husband's South Africa of To-day; Canon W. J. 

 Knox published Sketches and Studies in South 

 Africa ; Mrs. Lionel Phillips, South African Recol- 

 lections; Roy Devereaux threw Side Lights on 

 South Africa; while The Transvaal and the Queen, 

 by Lieut.-Col. N. Newnham-Davis contained remi- 

 niscences of his service as a free lance in the 

 republic twenty years ago. Montague George 

 Jessett pronounced The Key to South Africa: 

 Delagoa Bay. Under the African Sun, by Dr. W. 

 J. Ansorge, gave a description of native races in 

 Uganda, sporting adventures, and other experi- 

 ences, illustrated from photographs ; Harold Bind- 

 loss spent some time in The Niger Country; 

 Among the Wild Ngoni, by W. A. Elmslie, con- 

 tained some chapters in the history of the Liv- 

 ingstonia Mission in British Central Africa; a 

 record of travel and discovery In Dwarf Land and 

 Cannibal Country, by A. B. Lloyd, was supple- 

 mented by Sport in East Central Africa, by F. 

 Vaughan Kirby; British West Africa was from 

 the pen of A. F. Mockler Ferryman; and from 

 Mary H. Kingsley we had a collection of West 

 African Studies. Somaliland was visited by C. 

 V. A. Peel. Travels in Southern Arabia and the 

 Soudan, by the late Theodore Bent and Mrs. 

 Bent, were illustrated ; Parts I-III of The Temple 

 of Deir el Bahari, by E. Naville, were sent out, 

 being one of the publications of the Egypt Ex- 

 ploration Fund; the results of three years' work 

 by the first female explorers in Egypt, Margaret 

 Benson and Jane Gourlay, were given to the 

 world in The Temple of Mut in Asher. Mogreb- 

 El-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco, by R. B. Cun- 

 ninghame Graham, was followed by The Ipane 

 in the Overseas Library, and Tunisia and the 



