Written in the form of letters to her sister, this book gives practically the author's day to day experiences during journeys of over one hundred and four thousand miles in Japan. Mrs. Bird was the first European lady to visit many of the places described, and her journeys took place at what is perhaps the most interesting period of the country's history, when she was just beginning to awake to the glow of Western civilisation. As a faithful and realistic description of Old Japan by one of the most remarkable Englishwomen of her day, this book has an abiding interest. NOTES FROM A DIARY. First Series. By SIR MOUNTSTUART E. GRANT DUFF. Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, besides being a distinguished public-servant, was a popular member of society with a genius for gathering and recording good stories. In his series of "Notes from a Diary" he jotted down the best things he heard, and thereby made some very enjoyable volumes, which in cheaper guise will repeat and increase the success they gained in their more expensive form. LAVENGRO: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest. By GEORGE BORROW. With 6 Pen and Ink Sketches by PERCY WADHAM. This edition contains the unaltered text of the original issue: with the addition of some Suppressed Episodes printed only in the Editions issued by Mr. Murray; MS. Variorum, Vocabulary, and Notes by the late Professor W. I. KNAPP. OUR ENGLISH BIBLE. The Story of its Origin and Growth. By H. W. HAMILTON HOARE, late of Balliol College, Oxford, now an Assistant Secretary to the Board of Education, Whitehall. With Specimen Pages of Old Bibles. An historical sketch of the lineage of our Authorised Version, which was published in 1901 under the title of "The Evolution of the English Bible." The aim of the sketch is to give, in a continuous and narrative form, a history of our English translations, and to exhibit them in close connection with the story of the national life. THE LETTERS OF QUEEN VICTORIA. A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861. Edited by A. C. BENSON, M.A., C.V.O., and VISCOUNT ESHER, G.C.V.O., K.C.B. With 16 Portraits. 3 vols. 1s. net each volume. Published by authority of his Majesty King Edward VII. This edition is not abridged, but is the complete and revised text of the original. ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION. By CHARLES DARWIN. Popular impression of the Corrected Copyright Edition. Issued with the approval of the author's executors. The first edition of Darwin's "Origin of Species" has now passed out of copyright. It should, however, be clearly understood that the edition which thus loses its legal protection is the imperfect edition which the author subsequently revised and which was accordingly superseded. This, the complete and authorised edition of the work, will not lose copyright for some years.