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is “ right there"- sound odd to English ears
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declares that he can detect infinitely more The sayings and doings of the Puritans are
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Sen (Dinesh Chandra), History of Bengali Lan- worth and the other Lakers," he is simply sacrificing herself and every one else on the
guage and Literature : a Series of Lectures doing Byron an injustice by claiming too much. altar of sisterly love becomes irritating before
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is “ right there"- sound odd to English ears
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China : Social and Economic Conditions.
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Sen (Dinesh Chandra), History of Bengali Lan- worth and the other Lakers," he is simply sacrificing herself and every one else on the
guage and Literature : a Series of Lectures doing Byron an injustice by claiming too much. altar of sisterly love becomes irritating before
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romances. It is somewhat diffuse, and excel-
Willcocks (M. P. ), Wings of Desire, 6/ Lane
such words as “ directivity” and “worthful ”
lent in segments rather than as a whole.
The writing of Miss Willcocks is like her minister to the pleasure of a sensitive reader.
Hewson (Charles), Scarlet and Blue, 6/
title : it has an air of profundity and of extreme
Peacemaker (The), February.
Eveleigh Nash
precision, but is really inexact amid much
British Council Office
A capital novel, dealing with fox hunting,
superfluity of definition. ' Her material—but for
This journal is earnest and vigorous, and has
stag hunting, otter hunting, and beagling.
some irrelevancies—is good, her conceptions
a number of influential names behind it to give
The author is evidently a keen sportsman,
of character and of human relations clear and
it_standing. There are excellent articles on
and has caught the open-air atmosphere. His
fine ; and her technical defects cannot entirely
The Bond of Science' and The Press and
confrères will recognize the figures familiar in
spoil her power of presentation.
International Relations. '
every hunting field from the time of Jorrocks
to the present day, the cheerful greetings and
Willy (Colette), The Vagrant, 6/ Eveleigh Nash
Pease (Margaret), True Patriotism, and Other
the gossip; but those who do not hunt Written in the first person, the book consti-
Lessons on Peace and Internationalism, 1/ net.
will probably find the record of an endless
tutes less of a romance than a chronological
Pilgrim Press
round of meets and finds and kills more than record of the heroine's emotions. The descrip-
For notice see p. 273.
a little monotonous.
tions of music-hall life are realistic, but the Rationalist Press Association, Thirteenth Annual
Igglesden (Charles), Clouds, 6/ John Long
author's style is at times almost brutally Report, 1911.
The story of an ill-assorted marriage. A cynical, and we fear that the 300 pages of The annual summary and memorandum of
somewhat morbid introspection
and
young man marries a girl for her beauty and
self- the functions, propaganda, subscriptions, publi-
quickly repents. The characters strike us as revelation will produce a depressing effect on cations, and programme of the Association,
artificial, and so do most of the incidents.
the average English reader. The book is which defines its intellectual standpoint in the
The hero's only apparent vice is that he occa-
translated from the French by Charlotte syllabus as, the mental attitude which un-
sionally damns the villain. His wife is con-
Remry Kidd.
reservedly accepts the supremacy of reason,
veniently drowned, and he is left free to marry
and aims at establishing a system of philosophy
the girl with whom he has fallen in love. The
General Literature.
and ethics verifiable by experience and inde-
style of the book is defective.
A B C, March, 6d.
pendent of all arbitrary assumptions or au-
Kaye (Michael), The Honour of Bayard, 6/
The A B C is the most lucid and intelligible
thority. ”
Greening of railway guides, and indispensable in all well. Royal Society of Literature, The Academic Com-
We bave here a romantic drama of warfare regulated households. The March edition has mittee : Commemorative Addresses
on Sir
and intrigne in the early part of the sixteenth been enlarged, and reset in new type.
Alfred Comyn Lyall, by G. W. Prothero ; and
century. The scene is laid in an Italian town, Book of the Cambridge Review, 1879-97, 14 net.
on Edward Henry Pember, by W. J. Court-
which, when the story opens, is besieged by
Cambridge, Bowes & Bowes hope, 1/ net.
Frowde
Spanish forces, while the action centres round
A reprint, in paper covers, of a collection of
Iwo funeral orations on two distinguished
an attempt to induce the heroine to commit
prose and verse from The Cambridge Review,
members of the Society. They pay a worthy
an act of treachery in order to ransom her first published in 1898, and noticed by us on
and dignified tribute to scholarship.
husband, who is a prisoner in the enemy's December 24th of that year. The volume is Smith (William Hawley), All the Children of All
hands. A somewhat ingenious plot is marred entertaining in its variety, though, perhaps, over-
by ultra-sensationalism.
the People, 6/6 net.
loaded with serious matter. The preface gives
'Long's Sixpenny Net Novels : A Cabinet Secret,
New York, Macmillan Co.
a list of the editors of the Review, several of
by Guy Boothby; and The Greater Power, by
An inquiry into American educational
whom, from the first, Prof. E. V. Arnold, to
Harold Bindloss.
conditions, in which the fertile wisdom and
Long
the last mentioned, Dr. Figgis, have attained
keen observation of the author will be of
Lynch (Lawrence L. ), A Blind Lead, 6/
distinction.
Ward & Lock Commercial Handbook of Canada and Boards of
considerable utility in unravelling a confused
and obtusely treated topic.
A melodramatic story, the plot of which Trade Register, 1912, 5/
depends on the extraordinary likeness between
Toronto, Heaton's Agency
Weston (Agnes), My Life among the Blue-Jackets,
two sisters. The author seems more excited
3/6
Nisbet
London, Simpkin & Marshall
over the mystery than the average reader is
The eighth issue of a useful and trustworthy
To those who are interested in philanthropic
likely to be, and his punctuation is peculiar. handbook epitomizing the administrative, social,
endeavour the present volume will present
Russell (Countess), An Excellent Mystery, 6/ and industrial activities of Canada. Its prin:
much of interest. Miss Weston's work and
Stephen Swift
cipal contents are concerned with custom
achievements are too well known to need
The story of a singularly unsophisticated laws and regulations, local developments,
comment, and her book, which is in effect an
young lady, who, influenced by inadequate
agriculture, immigration, and general informa-
autobiography, provides an insight into her
motives and lack of worldly experience, seeks tion.
remarkable capacity for organization and in-
relief from an uncongenial home in marriage | Croft (Henry Page), The Path of Empire, 2/6 net.
domitable energy.
with a man for whom she has no real affection.
John Murray Weyl (Walter E. ), The New Democracy.
Domestic infelicity and desertion follow, and
A vigorous plea for an Imperial policy
New York, Macmillan Co.
the heroine ultimately obtains her freedom
based upon Imperial Preference and an Imperial An essay on certain political and economic
through the Divorce Court, being left with the
Council. The book is generally concise and to tendencies in the United States.
prospect of a happier union. The earlier
the point, in spite of occasional admonitions
portions of the book are weak and sentimental,
that " the time is late and the sands are running
and many of the characters are artificial, but
Pamphlets.
out,". . which do not materially assist us. It
the tale improves somewhat as it proceeds. should be useful to Unionist politicians. It has Blagg (Helen) and Wilson (Charlotte), Women
Tweedale (Violet), Austin's Career, 6/
an Introduction by Joseph Chamberlain.
and Prisons, 2d.
John Long
A career that is marred by an entanglement
Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular
Fabian Society, Women's Group
Year-Book for 1912, 1076
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