tensive range of electrical appliances, more and expresses himself at length and with great
Intended to supplement the well-known thorough methods of testing temperatures, and outspokenness on the present social system,
text-books of Hatch and Harker, and serve the perfection of other means of thermodynamic especially in reference to the land question.
Intended to supplement the well-known thorough methods of testing temperatures, and outspokenness on the present social system,
text-books of Hatch and Harker, and serve the perfection of other means of thermodynamic especially in reference to the land question.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
As a summary of his tion of fact, and some plausibility, are inevitable from the author.
psychology, metaphysics, and pedagogy this in the circumstances ; indeed, the descriptive
little volume serves its purpose adequately.
portions are preferable to the historical. The
Books for Schools and Students.
author has managed his material and story
Geography and Travel.
well in view of the limitations of his experience. Adair (H. N. ), French Composition, 1/6
Allen (Percy), Burgundy, the Splendid Duchy :
We do not find his occasional mannerism of The compiler of this useful little volume has
Studies and Sketches in South Burgundy,
jauntiness very attractive. There are some brought together some two hundred pieces
12/6 net.
pen-and-ink sketches. The volume is part of set for French composition during the past
An attractive collection of legend, history,
the Lesser Known Britain Series.
ten years in Civil Service Examination papers.
and description which has none of the dullness
Walker (Eldred G. F. ), Canadian Trails : Hither They are accordingly of a difficulty that will
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try the powers of the highest classes in our
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A personal chronicle containing the results of schools. "The notes in the Appendix are
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miscellaneous observation in a tour through decidedly brief, as the author wishes the
something of the Falstaff temperament, and the
the Dominion of Canada. The narrative is student to rely on himself.
author has penetrated its “ mental hinterland
disconnected, and discusses but few topics Baker (W. M. ) and Bourne (A. A. ), A New Geo-
with fine sympathy. There are a number of
likely to excite interest beyond the circle of metry, Books I. -III. , 1/6
excellent drawings and illustrations.
the author's friends. There are innumerable The authors have produced a more con-
Aspinall (Algernon E. ), The British West Indies :
memoirs of a similar type and scope.
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Anthropology
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Smurthwaite (Thomas E. ), Practical Anthro- been adopted successfully, and this grouping
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upon the West Indies it has its utility. It
especially with the English nation, adopting as fate years much valuable time has been lost
forms part of the All Red Series.
the basis of its contention the survival of tribal in such exercises.
Cambridge County Geographies : Buckingham-
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shire, by A. Morley Davies ; Midlothian, by
Roman times as Anglo-Saxon patronymics,
Berry (A. J. ), The Association of History and
Geography, 1/6
Alex. McCallum ; and Northamptonshire, by
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M. W. Brown, 1/6 each.
like. The author is concerned rather to re-
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These three volumes are on parallel lines in
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They are not
differentiation of characteristics. The division
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mere guides to the respective counties, but
of prehistoric populations into six distinct
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racial types with a continuity of the same up to
Study on the largest scale, an attempt to
present man
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of knowledge. The last forty pages deal with
series, and the diagrams afford statistical
Philology.
London.
information in simple form.
Chubb (T. ), A Descriptive Catalogue of the
Fausset (C. R. ), Specimens of German Prose and
Flecker (J. E. ), The Scholar's Italian Book : an
Printed Maps of Wiltshire from 1576 to the Poetry, 1/
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greatly economize the labour of those desirous
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of mastering the elements of the Italian lan-
belongs to the Map Room of the British Museum,
Sociology.
guage. The skeleton grammar is well classified,
and presents in this reprint a remarkably Groat (George Gorham), Attitude of American
and the anthology is satisfactorily selected.
complete survey of the subject, with a Tabular Courts in Labor Cases : a Study in Social
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topographers.
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Science of Columbia University. This, one
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The author's journey took him from Free- of the many valuable reports issued by Ame-
in this respect. But the methods of exposition
town, the coast capital of Sierra Leone, through rican colleges and Universities, should be of
adopted introduce certain innovating elements
the Western Soudan, to Timbuctu, which is great interest to students of sociology, as well worthy of remark. The author is in favour of
within the Sahara belt, and thence across the as to students of law. After tracing the often superseding mathematical symbols and formula
“Great Desert to Algiers. He has a ready, conflicting decisions of the courts on the subjects by presenting conceptions of phenomena through
descriptive pen, and without probing, deeply of strikes and of boycotts, Dr. Groat sums up the physical rather than the algebraic medium.
into the phenomena of race, custom, antiquities, thus : “ The situation then resolves itself into
To a certain extent, calculations in figures are
fauna and flora, natural features, and the
one where each of two parties claims the same
inevitable in the higher branches of the science,
like, writes an agreeable account of his adven- right, and each is seeking to exercise that but for a text-book the pictorial method is
tures and observations. Crossing the Sahara, he right when its exercise will prevent the other certainly the more interesting.
suffered considerable hardship, but accom- party from the same privilege. ' Some judges Moore (J. M. ) and Donaldson (J. ), An Inter-
plished the whole of his prodigious journey have eyes only for the right of the employer, mediate French Course, Part II. , 1/6
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animals which is depopulating Africa of many
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of its most beautiful specimens of game. There The court may recognize this and. . . . endeavour tion, while the use of the phonetic script is
are copious illustrations and a good route map. to. . . . find some superior right that will change urged upon the student from the beginning
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Rules are clearly stated, and the sentences in
Stopes (Marie C. ), On the True Nature of the
illustration well chosen. Appendix I.
Science.
Cretaceous Plant Ophioglossum granulatum,
gives a list of grammatical terms, and Ap-
Heer.
pendix II. some useful hints in letter-writing. British Bird-Book, Section VII. , 10/6 net.
Designed to prove that the Cretaceous im-
The French-English and English-French voca-
The seventh section of an exhaustive ex-
pressions known as Ophioglossum granulatum
bularies complete a serviceable class-book.
position of bird-life in Great Britain. It
are wrongly attributed to this genus, and to
Morgan (R. B. ) and Kitchener (E. E. ), Readings contains articles by ornithological authorities, formulate å method of differentiation in this
in English History from Original Sources,
whose scientific analyses are frequently not scientific sphere. Dr. Stopes has already
Book IV. (1688–1837), 2/6
incompatible with literary charm. The plates made a secure reputation in fossil botany.
As a companion to the ordinary class-book and photographs are instructive.
A reprint from The Annals of Botany, October,
on history, this volume will prove useful, for the Bryce (Alexander), Modern Theories of Diet and 1911.
extracts have been selected with the express their Bearings upon Practical Dietetics, 7/6 net.
United States National Museum : 1869, Descrip-
purpose of creating an interest in the social This book is intended for the use of both
conditions of the period.
tions of New Species of Wasps in the Collections
laymen and doctors. The author describes and
of the Museum, by S. A. Rohwer; 1874,
Neave (G. B. ) and Agnew (J. Watson), An Intro- criticizes all the theories of diet which have
duction to Practical Chemistry, 2/
any following of importance, and concludes
Description of a New Salamander from Iowa,
Though nothing new is to be found in the with the statement that, for the average man
by A. G. Ruthven; 1875, A Review of the
book before us, its form and expression are good. in good health, moderation in diet is more bene-
Sparidæ and Related Families of Perch-like
Diagrams are both numerous and clear, while
Fishes found in the Waters of Japan, by D. S.
ficial than the adoption of any particular system
the type used is large.
Jordan and W. F. Thompson; and 1879,
of diet.
Peel (Robert), An Elementary Text-Book of Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature :
Preservation of Osseous and Horny Tissues,
Coal Mining: a Class-Book for Elementary Earthworms and their Allies, by Frank E.
by F. L. J. Boettcher.
Students preparing for the Board of Education Beddard ; The Migration of Birds, by T. A.
If these scientific studies will attract only
Examination in Principles of Mining and
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a limited public, they nevertheless embody the
for Colliery Managers' Examinations, 37
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first-fruits of original research and discovery.
The sixteenth edition of a text-book securely by Alfred B. Searle ; and Prehistoric Man, by
Moreover, they are interesting in themselves,
established in favour. It was first published in W. L. H. Duckworth, 1/ net each.
and should be of permanent value for future
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investigation.
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Fiction.
Mining was amplified by the Board of Educa- predecessors, and bring the total number
tion. The greater utility of electricity_in published to date up to thirty-two. The
Benson (Robert Hugh), The Coward.
mining operations also added to its scope. The volumes on ‘Migration of Birds' and 'Earth-
The nominal matter of The Coward' is
principal features of the present edition are worms ' each contain new material based upon
the conflict in his own mind and in his outer
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life of a young man with his own weakness ;
Machinery,' several fresh illustrations, and book—the third in the series on Locomotion
but the real matter, of which the author
various revisions.
-is exceptionally well-illustrated, and, while
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Philips' Comparative Series of Wall Atlases of mainly devoted to the actual working of the
and uselessness, the blindness to realities and
the Continents, Explanatory Handbook: Set I. locomotive, contains an exciting chapter on
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A notice of these wall atlases of Europe History of Clay' Mr. Searle has a subject
imagination the life which the Medds of Med-
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hurst spent would be suffocating. But neither
Their utility is decidedly increased by this esting. Finally, in Dr. Duckworth's book Father Benson nor the characters of his story
handbook, which should serve as the basis of we have a careful study of the relics of our seem to surmise that they were not only
an extremely instructive course of lessons.
ancestors, giving up-to-date results of the
cumberers of the earth, but also exceedingly dull
Rhodes (J. E. W. ), Micropetrology for Beginners : work of the leading investigators.
cumberers.
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tensive range of electrical appliances, more and expresses himself at length and with great
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text-books of Hatch and Harker, and serve the perfection of other means of thermodynamic especially in reference to the land question.
as a reference manual for practical work in investigation achieved in eighteen years.
the laboratory. It contains, in addition to the
Though the plan of the work is materially un-
Daudet (Alphonse), Sidonie's Revenge, 1/6 net.
orthodox petrological study, chapters on the altered, it is far more suited to the needs of Translated by Henry Blanchamp for the
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microscope, and the optical properties of part deals with the principal experimental
Ainé,' or, as the translator somewhat crudely
minerals.
phenomena resulting from the application of
renames it, 'Sidonie's Revenge,' is exquisite,
Rodger (James), An Introduction to the Use of heat to matter; the second with heat as an
yet by reason of its truth and its sympathy
Common Logarithms, 1/
energizing force. There are numerous diagrams.
remains to-day the most popular of Daudet's
A serviceable guide to the use of logarithms Fabre (J. H. ), Social Life in the Insect World,
studies of bourgeois life. " The translation is
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captivating books of our generation. M. Fabre's To some readers Mr. Harding Davis is
delineation is so divorced from mere scientific
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ten sets of exercises with answers.
jottings, so instinct with human insight, that stories that dealt with the various adventures
pigmy mankind might be the insect world whose
Tarr (Ralph S. ) and McMurry (Frank M. ), World
of that composed young American were things
social customs and peculiarities he so inimitably
Geography, One-Volume Edition, 5/6 net.
of pure delight-and of more depth than care-
describes. The style is delightfully crisp and less readers recognized. The later stories in
It is not easy to understand for what class
clear.
this new volume are of a very different and a
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Knott (John), The Presentation of the Medical far inferior brand.
intended. The five hundred pages of text,
Of course they are skil-
Sciences in the New Edition of the Encyclo- fully made.
interspersed with commercial statistics, suggest
Mr. Davis is an accomplished
pædia Britannica, 1/
that the authors had in view the needs of
craftsman, but only in one of the five - The
From The St. Paul Medical Journal
scholars who had passed the elementary stage; One and All Gardening, 1912, 21.
Nature Fáker '—is there any spark of the old
excellence. These are the stories of commerce ;
but this supposition is contradicted by the
The seventeenth issue of this much-adver.
seven hundred illustrations—which range from
they are not individual, not observed, not felt,
tised Annual. Its appeal is obviously popular. and therefore to lovers of the better, earlier
maps of an unusually high standard down to
photographs of kings and wild animals and Reinhardt (Charles), Diet and the Maximum Dura- work very disappointing.
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Dawe (Carlton), Eternal Glory, 6/
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facetious. The author confuses the ridiculous
extracted by the judicious use of scissors and
of nutrition for the healthy prolongation of
paste from this elaborate work, which, as it
human life. The author is a convinced advocate
with the humorous, making his characters so
absurd as to rob them of reality.
stands, will be appreciated more as an atlas
of the sour-milk theory. His book is sensible,
and album than as a text-book.
Dodge (Janet), Tony Unregenerate, 6/
Weekley (Ernest), Morceaux Choisis, XIXe. Siècle, Reinhardt (Charles), Science and the Soul, or
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and cannot be convicted of faddism.
Tony gives her love to a musician who
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A third course,
and the Mind. ' It is more or less an auto-
the patient lover in the background really
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attained his desire; if he did, we find it difficult
transient mental impression than either, is ducted in the sphere of post-hypnotic sugges.
to believe that the result was happiness. Miss
the study of the several works of one author tion. It is a curious amalgam of somewhat
Dodge adds nothing very new to the three-
extracts linked by biographical and analytical crude occultism and psychic discovery that
cornered problem, although her story is read-
commentary. Mr. Weekley's notes are not
may be of permanent benefit to the human race.
able enough.
altogether satisfactory. Students
of post-
The style of the book does not enlist our sym- Drummond (Hamilton), The Three Envelopes.
matriculation standard should not need to be pathies.
Mr. Drummond's exciting novel has an
informed that Beatrice was a lady immortalized | Robson (Herbert), The A B C of Domestic
opening that is almost Stevensonian, and that
by Dante nor to have "La Terreur" explained. Electricity, 1/
leads up to very strange adventures, better
Whiddington (Mrs. A. A. ), A Play-Book of History. A handy manual describing the application of imagined than the supernatural generally is in
An artless device for stamping landmarks electricity to domestic purposes, the various fiction. Not until he has laid the volume
of British history on the minds of very young systems,
and the most economic and effective. down has the reader time to remark a certain
Britons. Includes plain and coloured illustra- There are but few technicalities to worry the want of cohesion and a considerable fringe of
tions.
normal householder.
loose ends.
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George has written a brief Preface, cannot be
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crime and knows everything, while the detective incident by a particularly self-centred young introductory note by the authors : “ We have
knows nothing. Inanimate trivialities, like the
We fear that those who are able to attempted to describe, simply and broadly,
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Harris-Burland (J. B. ), Lord of Irongray.
of characterization, and delicacy and restraint great care and patience. We are sorry not to
When the wandering, thriftless heir to Iron- in treatment, needed for such a subject, while find any indication that the Act will ensure
gray resolves to settle down to the life of a good the theatrical atmosphere and a somewhat the keeping of separate accounts for the funds
and useful citizen, his troubles begin. His cynical style make an unpleasant effect on us. contributed by men and women respectively.
past life on the island of Mokara, which he Watson (Helen H. ), The Open Valley, 6/
It is of the highest importance that accounts
fondly imagines buried, confronts him at every
The plot of this story is interesting, and a shall be so kept as to show the amounts spent
turn; but at last the timely intervention little more thought expended on it would have upon each set of contributors.
of a shark, which swallows his half-caste elder made a first-rate novel. The head of a firm, International Theosophical Chronicle, Vol. VIII.
son, relieves him and saves the inheritance beginning life as a mill hand, has gained his No. 1.
for the son of his reformed days. The attitude position by hard work and perseverance,
Emanates from California, but suggests
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open to criticism, though he, like the other invention shown to him by a drunken ne'er-do- London typographer than an organ of followers
characters in the book, has no personality.
well comrade just before his death. The story of Madame Blavatsky. Snippets from the
Hookham (Paul), A Romance of the Impossible
shows how his prosperity failed and Nemesis daily press, and trite reproductions of the
(from the French of Théophile Gautier), 2/6 net.
overtook him. We cannot regard the plan of Acropolis and the Sphinx, have little to do
A liberal paraphrase, largely of 'Mlle. de
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Maupin. ' The quality of the selections con-
unconvincing features the story is worth truths for which Theosophy stands.
vincingly illustrates the fancifulness of Gautier's
reading.
Jones (Chester Lloyd), ? Readings on Parties and
idealism,, the profundity of his melancholy Wrench (Mrs. Stanley), Ruth of the Rowldrich, 6/ Elections in the United States, 7/ net.
and restless dissatisfaction. Mr. Hookham
The author has written better work than this. This is a series of papers, derived from various
writes a mosaic of delicate phraseology. It is
The dialogue, especially in the first half of the published sources, upon various subjects of
artificially fastidious, but its nicely shaded
story, is weak, and the characters have for us political interest and importance to American
graduations are peculiarly amenable to the do strong interest until the latter part of the readers, and of some interest to English readers
interpretation of such an artist of language
book is reached.
who desire to understand American affairs.
as Gautier. Its honeyed cadences, however,
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complete title Readings on Parties and
Lamport (Richard Fifield), Veeni the Master,
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Veeni is a diabolical personage who, in view
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human souls to another world. But the loves
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trations.
the author might well have spared himself
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esting people in a remote Cornish village,
of natural forces at the same time by means modern fiction.
and we doubt if the reader who possesses
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verse. Prof. Feuillerat has adopted as his
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MacDonald (George), At the Back of the North text the 1590 edition, which was the unfinished
of expression.
Wind, 1/
manuscript published in a quarto volume in
Lowndes (Mrs. Belloc), The Chink in the Armour,
In Blackie's School and Home Library. 1590. He intends to devote another volume
A reprint in portable form of George Mac- to the 1593 edition, which is the text of the
' But there is one chink in the chain armour
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of civilized communities. Society is conducted
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on the assumption that murder will not be
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quarto, and there is a long list of the variant
committed. ” With this promise of a thrilling Bates (E. Katharine), The Coping Stone, 3/6
readings of the fourteen editions published
story the author takes us to a fashionable
between 1593 and 1674, set out with all the
Beard (Charles A. ) and Shultz (Birl E. ), Docu-
gambling place not far from Paris, where we ments on the State-Wide Initiative, Referendum
care we expected of the distinguished editor.
find a pretty English widow, her friend, a
The print is good, but the book is somewhat
and Recall, 8/6 net.
Polish lady
jwith a passion for play, a French
bulky.
This volume is rather a defence, by implica-
count with the same failing, and a double tion and by the precedent of actual adoption,
Pamphlets.
allowance of villains. A suggestion of the of the legislative system of initiative and Eccles (Caroline A. ), of the Emancipation of
supernatural serves to heighten the interest, referendum, than propagandist advocacy. It is Women, 3d. net.
and the story goes with a swing to a well- in the nature of a compilation of the machinery An able and modest thesis, predicting the
managed dénouement.
of constitutional provisions in force or pend- moral and spiritual exfoliation of woman,
Marchmont (Arthur W. ), The Ruby Heart of ing experiment in a large number of the as Whitman calls it, into equality with man as
Kishgar, 6/
States of the Union. It contains, in addition, a development of her representation in the
This tale hangs upon the fortunes of a much documentary material, official statistics, government of the State. It incidentally
wonderful jewel, stolen originally from a temple and many instructive adjudications revolving urges those who are devoted to the cause to
in Asia.
psychology, metaphysics, and pedagogy this in the circumstances ; indeed, the descriptive
little volume serves its purpose adequately.
portions are preferable to the historical. The
Books for Schools and Students.
author has managed his material and story
Geography and Travel.
well in view of the limitations of his experience. Adair (H. N. ), French Composition, 1/6
Allen (Percy), Burgundy, the Splendid Duchy :
We do not find his occasional mannerism of The compiler of this useful little volume has
Studies and Sketches in South Burgundy,
jauntiness very attractive. There are some brought together some two hundred pieces
12/6 net.
pen-and-ink sketches. The volume is part of set for French composition during the past
An attractive collection of legend, history,
the Lesser Known Britain Series.
ten years in Civil Service Examination papers.
and description which has none of the dullness
Walker (Eldred G. F. ), Canadian Trails : Hither They are accordingly of a difficulty that will
of the guide-book. Burgundy is a land as
and Thither in the Great Dominion, 1/ net.
try the powers of the highest classes in our
sturdy and genial in its people, its architecture,
A personal chronicle containing the results of schools. "The notes in the Appendix are
and its natural features as its wines. It has
miscellaneous observation in a tour through decidedly brief, as the author wishes the
something of the Falstaff temperament, and the
the Dominion of Canada. The narrative is student to rely on himself.
author has penetrated its “ mental hinterland
disconnected, and discusses but few topics Baker (W. M. ) and Bourne (A. A. ), A New Geo-
with fine sympathy. There are a number of
likely to excite interest beyond the circle of metry, Books I. -III. , 1/6
excellent drawings and illustrations.
the author's friends. There are innumerable The authors have produced a more con-
Aspinall (Algernon E. ), The British West Indies :
memoirs of a similar type and scope.
densed Geometry than their previous well-
their History, Resources, and Progress, 7/6 net.
Windt (Harry de), From Paris to New York by known book, though the same general lines
Contains a mass and variety of information
Land, 1/ net.
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concerning the history, topography, immigra-
the Board of Education that propositions on
Anthropology
has
tion, industries, administration, institutions,
congruent triangles should be grouped
flora and fauna of the country, the whole
Smurthwaite (Thomas E. ), Practical Anthro- been adopted successfully, and this grouping
strung somewbat loosely together into a con-
pology, 2/6 net.
of closely connected theorems has been effected
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This brochure is a disquisition on national in other cases. Due attention is given to
else than a report. As a compendious manual
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upon the West Indies it has its utility. It
especially with the English nation, adopting as fate years much valuable time has been lost
forms part of the All Red Series.
the basis of its contention the survival of tribal in such exercises.
Cambridge County Geographies : Buckingham-
names in place-names, their reappearance from
shire, by A. Morley Davies ; Midlothian, by
Roman times as Anglo-Saxon patronymics,
Berry (A. J. ), The Association of History and
Geography, 1/6
Alex. McCallum ; and Northamptonshire, by
the prevalence of numerous dialects, and the
The author has achieved considerable success
M. W. Brown, 1/6 each.
like. The author is concerned rather to re-
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These three volumes are on parallel lines in
iterate a familiar conclusion than to show the
contents and arrangement.
between the two kindred subjects. He himself
They are not
differentiation of characteristics. The division
describes his book as “an aspect of Nature-
mere guides to the respective counties, but
of prehistoric populations into six distinct
carefully compiled descriptions of the districts,
racial types with a continuity of the same up to
Study on the largest scale, an attempt to
present man
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modern times has been pointed out before, but
in his proper environment. ”
His treatment of his subject is worthy of the
habitants. The numerous illustrations from
hardly so succinctly and prominently as by
attention of all interested in these two branches
photographs are an interesting feature of the the present author.
of knowledge. The last forty pages deal with
series, and the diagrams afford statistical
Philology.
London.
information in simple form.
Chubb (T. ), A Descriptive Catalogue of the
Fausset (C. R. ), Specimens of German Prose and
Flecker (J. E. ), The Scholar's Italian Book : an
Printed Maps of Wiltshire from 1576 to the Poetry, 1/
Introduction to the Study of the Latin Origins
Publication of the 25-inch Ordnance Survey,
A selection of passages in prose and verse,
of Italian, 3/6
1885.
in the transcription of the International
A workmanlike text-book, which should
Reprinted from The Wiltshire Archæological
Phonetic Association and in ordinary type.
greatly economize the labour of those desirous
and Natural History Magazine. The author
of mastering the elements of the Italian lan-
belongs to the Map Room of the British Museum,
Sociology.
guage. The skeleton grammar is well classified,
and presents in this reprint a remarkably Groat (George Gorham), Attitude of American
and the anthology is satisfactorily selected.
complete survey of the subject, with a Tabular Courts in Labor Cases : a Study in Social
Kimball (Arthur L. ), A College Text-Book of
Index which affords all necessary details for
Legislation, $2. 50.
Physics, 10/6 net.
topographers.
One of the Studies in History, Economics, and
Adapted for a first-year college course.
Haywood (Capt. A. H. W. ), Through Timbuctu Public Law, edited by the Faculty of Political
There is no imperative demand for another
and Across the Great Sahara, 16/ net.
Science of Columbia University. This, one
text-book upon a subject already well treated
The author's journey took him from Free- of the many valuable reports issued by Ame-
in this respect. But the methods of exposition
town, the coast capital of Sierra Leone, through rican colleges and Universities, should be of
adopted introduce certain innovating elements
the Western Soudan, to Timbuctu, which is great interest to students of sociology, as well worthy of remark. The author is in favour of
within the Sahara belt, and thence across the as to students of law. After tracing the often superseding mathematical symbols and formula
“Great Desert to Algiers. He has a ready, conflicting decisions of the courts on the subjects by presenting conceptions of phenomena through
descriptive pen, and without probing, deeply of strikes and of boycotts, Dr. Groat sums up the physical rather than the algebraic medium.
into the phenomena of race, custom, antiquities, thus : “ The situation then resolves itself into
To a certain extent, calculations in figures are
fauna and flora, natural features, and the
one where each of two parties claims the same
inevitable in the higher branches of the science,
like, writes an agreeable account of his adven- right, and each is seeking to exercise that but for a text-book the pictorial method is
tures and observations. Crossing the Sahara, he right when its exercise will prevent the other certainly the more interesting.
suffered considerable hardship, but accom- party from the same privilege. ' Some judges Moore (J. M. ) and Donaldson (J. ), An Inter-
plished the whole of his prodigious journey have eyes only for the right of the employer, mediate French Course, Part II. , 1/6
in just over six months. We are glad to see some only for that of the employed, while The main points of French acciuence and
that he denounces the mania for slaughtering others enforce some sort of compromise. “Any syntax are made in this book the basis of suc-
animals which is depopulating Africa of many
one of these courses may result in an injustice. ceeding exercises in translation and retransla-
of its most beautiful specimens of game. There The court may recognize this and. . . . endeavour tion, while the use of the phonetic script is
are copious illustrations and a good route map. to. . . . find some superior right that will change urged upon the student from the beginning
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Rules are clearly stated, and the sentences in
Stopes (Marie C. ), On the True Nature of the
illustration well chosen. Appendix I.
Science.
Cretaceous Plant Ophioglossum granulatum,
gives a list of grammatical terms, and Ap-
Heer.
pendix II. some useful hints in letter-writing. British Bird-Book, Section VII. , 10/6 net.
Designed to prove that the Cretaceous im-
The French-English and English-French voca-
The seventh section of an exhaustive ex-
pressions known as Ophioglossum granulatum
bularies complete a serviceable class-book.
position of bird-life in Great Britain. It
are wrongly attributed to this genus, and to
Morgan (R. B. ) and Kitchener (E. E. ), Readings contains articles by ornithological authorities, formulate å method of differentiation in this
in English History from Original Sources,
whose scientific analyses are frequently not scientific sphere. Dr. Stopes has already
Book IV. (1688–1837), 2/6
incompatible with literary charm. The plates made a secure reputation in fossil botany.
As a companion to the ordinary class-book and photographs are instructive.
A reprint from The Annals of Botany, October,
on history, this volume will prove useful, for the Bryce (Alexander), Modern Theories of Diet and 1911.
extracts have been selected with the express their Bearings upon Practical Dietetics, 7/6 net.
United States National Museum : 1869, Descrip-
purpose of creating an interest in the social This book is intended for the use of both
conditions of the period.
tions of New Species of Wasps in the Collections
laymen and doctors. The author describes and
of the Museum, by S. A. Rohwer; 1874,
Neave (G. B. ) and Agnew (J. Watson), An Intro- criticizes all the theories of diet which have
duction to Practical Chemistry, 2/
any following of importance, and concludes
Description of a New Salamander from Iowa,
Though nothing new is to be found in the with the statement that, for the average man
by A. G. Ruthven; 1875, A Review of the
book before us, its form and expression are good. in good health, moderation in diet is more bene-
Sparidæ and Related Families of Perch-like
Diagrams are both numerous and clear, while
Fishes found in the Waters of Japan, by D. S.
ficial than the adoption of any particular system
the type used is large.
Jordan and W. F. Thompson; and 1879,
of diet.
Peel (Robert), An Elementary Text-Book of Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature :
Preservation of Osseous and Horny Tissues,
Coal Mining: a Class-Book for Elementary Earthworms and their Allies, by Frank E.
by F. L. J. Boettcher.
Students preparing for the Board of Education Beddard ; The Migration of Birds, by T. A.
If these scientific studies will attract only
Examination in Principles of Mining and
Coward ; The Modern Locomotive, by C.
a limited public, they nevertheless embody the
for Colliery Managers' Examinations, 37
Edgar Allen ; The Natural History of Clay,
first-fruits of original research and discovery.
The sixteenth edition of a text-book securely by Alfred B. Searle ; and Prehistoric Man, by
Moreover, they are interesting in themselves,
established in favour. It was first published in W. L. H. Duckworth, 1/ net each.
and should be of permanent value for future
1893, and underwent no radical alterations The five new volumes comprised in this
investigation.
until 1901, when the Syllabus of Principles of issue maintain the high standard set by their
Fiction.
Mining was amplified by the Board of Educa- predecessors, and bring the total number
tion. The greater utility of electricity_in published to date up to thirty-two. The
Benson (Robert Hugh), The Coward.
mining operations also added to its scope. The volumes on ‘Migration of Birds' and 'Earth-
The nominal matter of The Coward' is
principal features of the present edition are worms ' each contain new material based upon
the conflict in his own mind and in his outer
an additional chapter on Coal-Cutting by the observations of the authors. Mr. Allen's
life of a young man with his own weakness ;
Machinery,' several fresh illustrations, and book—the third in the series on Locomotion
but the real matter, of which the author
various revisions.
-is exceptionally well-illustrated, and, while
appears unconscious, is the appalling emptiness
Philips' Comparative Series of Wall Atlases of mainly devoted to the actual working of the
and uselessness, the blindness to realities and
the Continents, Explanatory Handbook: Set I. locomotive, contains an exciting chapter on
devotion to trifling pleasures, of a typical
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Performance and Speeds. In the Natural
English county family. To any person of
A notice of these wall atlases of Europe History of Clay' Mr. Searle has a subject
imagination the life which the Medds of Med-
appeared in The Athenaeum of January 20th. with many aspects, but makes them all inter-
hurst spent would be suffocating. But neither
Their utility is decidedly increased by this esting. Finally, in Dr. Duckworth's book Father Benson nor the characters of his story
handbook, which should serve as the basis of we have a careful study of the relics of our seem to surmise that they were not only
an extremely instructive course of lessons.
ancestors, giving up-to-date results of the
cumberers of the earth, but also exceedingly dull
Rhodes (J. E. W. ), Micropetrology for Beginners : work of the leading investigators.
cumberers.
an Introduction to the Use of the Microscope Draper (Charles H. ), Heat and the Principles of Bryce (James), The Story of a Ploughboy, 6/
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tensive range of electrical appliances, more and expresses himself at length and with great
Intended to supplement the well-known thorough methods of testing temperatures, and outspokenness on the present social system,
text-books of Hatch and Harker, and serve the perfection of other means of thermodynamic especially in reference to the land question.
as a reference manual for practical work in investigation achieved in eighteen years.
the laboratory. It contains, in addition to the
Though the plan of the work is materially un-
Daudet (Alphonse), Sidonie's Revenge, 1/6 net.
orthodox petrological study, chapters on the altered, it is far more suited to the needs of Translated by Henry Blanchamp for the
preparation of material, the choice of the
a new generation than the old one. The first
Lotus Library. ' ‘Froment Jeune et Risler
microscope, and the optical properties of part deals with the principal experimental
Ainé,' or, as the translator somewhat crudely
minerals.
phenomena resulting from the application of
renames it, 'Sidonie's Revenge,' is exquisite,
Rodger (James), An Introduction to the Use of heat to matter; the second with heat as an
yet by reason of its truth and its sympathy
Common Logarithms, 1/
energizing force. There are numerous diagrams.
remains to-day the most popular of Daudet's
A serviceable guide to the use of logarithms Fabre (J. H. ), Social Life in the Insect World,
studies of bourgeois life. " The translation is
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translated by Bernard Miall, 10/6 net.
accurate and effective.
matical groundwork necessary for the thorough
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An excellent translation of one of the most Davis (R. H. ), The Man Who could not Lose, 6/
rules are concisely expressed, and, being printed
captivating books of our generation. M. Fabre's To some readers Mr. Harding Davis is
delineation is so divorced from mere scientific
in black type, readily catch the eye. There are
primarily the creator of Van Bibber. The short
ten sets of exercises with answers.
jottings, so instinct with human insight, that stories that dealt with the various adventures
pigmy mankind might be the insect world whose
Tarr (Ralph S. ) and McMurry (Frank M. ), World
of that composed young American were things
social customs and peculiarities he so inimitably
Geography, One-Volume Edition, 5/6 net.
of pure delight-and of more depth than care-
describes. The style is delightfully crisp and less readers recognized. The later stories in
It is not easy to understand for what class
clear.
this new volume are of a very different and a
of pupils this substantial American work is
Knott (John), The Presentation of the Medical far inferior brand.
intended. The five hundred pages of text,
Of course they are skil-
Sciences in the New Edition of the Encyclo- fully made.
interspersed with commercial statistics, suggest
Mr. Davis is an accomplished
pædia Britannica, 1/
that the authors had in view the needs of
craftsman, but only in one of the five - The
From The St. Paul Medical Journal
scholars who had passed the elementary stage; One and All Gardening, 1912, 21.
Nature Fáker '—is there any spark of the old
excellence. These are the stories of commerce ;
but this supposition is contradicted by the
The seventeenth issue of this much-adver.
seven hundred illustrations—which range from
they are not individual, not observed, not felt,
tised Annual. Its appeal is obviously popular. and therefore to lovers of the better, earlier
maps of an unusually high standard down to
photographs of kings and wild animals and Reinhardt (Charles), Diet and the Maximum Dura- work very disappointing.
the obvious anxiety of the authors to state
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Dawe (Carlton), Eternal Glory, 6/
facts in the simplest language. It is certain
The aim and scope of this book are sufficiently A somewhat cumbrous attempt at the
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indicated by its title. It suggests various formas
facetious. The author confuses the ridiculous
extracted by the judicious use of scissors and
of nutrition for the healthy prolongation of
paste from this elaborate work, which, as it
human life. The author is a convinced advocate
with the humorous, making his characters so
absurd as to rob them of reality.
stands, will be appreciated more as an atlas
of the sour-milk theory. His book is sensible,
and album than as a text-book.
Dodge (Janet), Tony Unregenerate, 6/
Weekley (Ernest), Morceaux Choisis, XIXe. Siècle, Reinhardt (Charles), Science and the Soul, or
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and cannot be convicted of faddism.
Tony gives her love to a musician who
2/
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worships art, and incidentally is a despicable
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author leaves us in some doubt as to whether
fragments and a single text.
A third course,
and the Mind. ' It is more or less an auto-
the patient lover in the background really
which commends itself as likely to leave a less biographical description of experiments con-
attained his desire; if he did, we find it difficult
transient mental impression than either, is ducted in the sphere of post-hypnotic sugges.
to believe that the result was happiness. Miss
the study of the several works of one author tion. It is a curious amalgam of somewhat
Dodge adds nothing very new to the three-
extracts linked by biographical and analytical crude occultism and psychic discovery that
cornered problem, although her story is read-
commentary. Mr. Weekley's notes are not
may be of permanent benefit to the human race.
able enough.
altogether satisfactory. Students
of post-
The style of the book does not enlist our sym- Drummond (Hamilton), The Three Envelopes.
matriculation standard should not need to be pathies.
Mr. Drummond's exciting novel has an
informed that Beatrice was a lady immortalized | Robson (Herbert), The A B C of Domestic
opening that is almost Stevensonian, and that
by Dante nor to have "La Terreur" explained. Electricity, 1/
leads up to very strange adventures, better
Whiddington (Mrs. A. A. ), A Play-Book of History. A handy manual describing the application of imagined than the supernatural generally is in
An artless device for stamping landmarks electricity to domestic purposes, the various fiction. Not until he has laid the volume
of British history on the minds of very young systems,
and the most economic and effective. down has the reader time to remark a certain
Britons. Includes plain and coloured illustra- There are but few technicalities to worry the want of cohesion and a considerable fringe of
tions.
normal householder.
loose ends.
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band of dense professionals appear in these pages. forgotten.
This stout volume, for which Mr. Lloyd
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George has written a brief Preface, cannot be
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crime and knows everything, while the detective incident by a particularly self-centred young introductory note by the authors : “ We have
knows nothing. Inanimate trivialities, like the
We fear that those who are able to attempted to describe, simply and broadly,
bone in the German folk-song, are made to sing appreciate the self-revelation do not need such the machinery of the Act, and to bring together
the doom of the criminal, as they ever have done help, and those who do need it will not under- in a connected form matters which can be
and, we fear, ever will do.
stand the book.
gathered only from a careful comparison of the
Gilman (Bradley), The Sultan's Rival.
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Describes the adventures of two English
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The author has selected a sordid theme, sections, to call attention to these problems,
plays an important part in the story. Some
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of the illustrations are only gaudy.
justifies his work. We do not find the boldness work the authors seem to have carried out with
Harris-Burland (J. B. ), Lord of Irongray.
of characterization, and delicacy and restraint great care and patience. We are sorry not to
When the wandering, thriftless heir to Iron- in treatment, needed for such a subject, while find any indication that the Act will ensure
gray resolves to settle down to the life of a good the theatrical atmosphere and a somewhat the keeping of separate accounts for the funds
and useful citizen, his troubles begin. His cynical style make an unpleasant effect on us. contributed by men and women respectively.
past life on the island of Mokara, which he Watson (Helen H. ), The Open Valley, 6/
It is of the highest importance that accounts
fondly imagines buried, confronts him at every
The plot of this story is interesting, and a shall be so kept as to show the amounts spent
turn; but at last the timely intervention little more thought expended on it would have upon each set of contributors.
of a shark, which swallows his half-caste elder made a first-rate novel. The head of a firm, International Theosophical Chronicle, Vol. VIII.
son, relieves him and saves the inheritance beginning life as a mill hand, has gained his No. 1.
for the son of his reformed days. The attitude position by hard work and perseverance,
Emanates from California, but suggests
taken up by the Bishop of Polynesia is perhaps following on the patenting, as his own, of an rather the nicely got-up specimen book of a
open to criticism, though he, like the other invention shown to him by a drunken ne'er-do- London typographer than an organ of followers
characters in the book, has no personality.
well comrade just before his death. The story of Madame Blavatsky. Snippets from the
Hookham (Paul), A Romance of the Impossible
shows how his prosperity failed and Nemesis daily press, and trite reproductions of the
(from the French of Théophile Gautier), 2/6 net.
overtook him. We cannot regard the plan of Acropolis and the Sphinx, have little to do
A liberal paraphrase, largely of 'Mlle. de
restitution as satisfactory, but in spite of some with internationalism, and still less with the
Maupin. ' The quality of the selections con-
unconvincing features the story is worth truths for which Theosophy stands.
vincingly illustrates the fancifulness of Gautier's
reading.
Jones (Chester Lloyd), ? Readings on Parties and
idealism,, the profundity of his melancholy Wrench (Mrs. Stanley), Ruth of the Rowldrich, 6/ Elections in the United States, 7/ net.
and restless dissatisfaction. Mr. Hookham
The author has written better work than this. This is a series of papers, derived from various
writes a mosaic of delicate phraseology. It is
The dialogue, especially in the first half of the published sources, upon various subjects of
artificially fastidious, but its nicely shaded
story, is weak, and the characters have for us political interest and importance to American
graduations are peculiarly amenable to the do strong interest until the latter part of the readers, and of some interest to English readers
interpretation of such an artist of language
book is reached.
who desire to understand American affairs.
as Gautier. Its honeyed cadences, however,
Juvenile Books.
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paper cover of the volume bear only the in-
and imaginative introduction,
complete title Readings on Parties and
Lamport (Richard Fifield), Veeni the Master,
A book for young people of a catholic range, Elections' must be noted, as it may mislead
the Story of a Dream,” 6/
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Veeni is a diabolical personage who, in view
countries in 64 pages of large type. The author Man-at-Arms (The), the Magazine of the Royal
of the imminent destruction of the earth by a
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comet, arranges the transfer of a number of
might have attempted a less ambitious task, January, 1/ net.
human souls to another world. But the loves
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and wars of Zan are so woefully terrene that
of the book lies in its dramatic coloured illus-
7/6 net.
trations.
the author might well have spared himself
Classical mythology has indeed furnished
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is an excess sword-flashes, persons who lie
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Le Sage (A. B. ), In the West Wind, 6/
Days. It is an exceptional specimen of that a useful compilation that may save an excursion
This is a singularly incoherent narrative of
type of literature designed to convey the lessons to a reference library. The legends are retold
the sayings and doings of some rather uninter-
of elementary botany and to instil the love with the rhetorical excrescences common to
esting people in a remote Cornish village,
of natural forces at the same time by means modern fiction.
and we doubt if the reader who possesses
of dramatizing and personifying the subject- Sidney (Sir Philip), The Countess of Pembroke's
sufficient patience to wade through pages of
matter. It is full of verve and original ima- Arcadia, edited by Albert Feuillerat, 4/6 net.
colloquial dialect will feel duly rewarded at
gination, but we do not find it so good as When completed, this edition will be the first
the conclusion of his labours. The descriptions
Bevis,' the prototype and the culminating to contain Sidney's entire output in prose and
of country life and Nature in her varying moods
achievement of works of this nature.
verse. Prof. Feuillerat has adopted as his
show some artistic feeling and a certain felicity
MacDonald (George), At the Back of the North text the 1590 edition, which was the unfinished
of expression.
Wind, 1/
manuscript published in a quarto volume in
Lowndes (Mrs. Belloc), The Chink in the Armour,
In Blackie's School and Home Library. 1590. He intends to devote another volume
A reprint in portable form of George Mac- to the 1593 edition, which is the text of the
' But there is one chink in the chain armour
Donald's visionary and fanciful story. Its original quarto slightly modified. The spelling
of civilized communities. Society is conducted
imaginative qualities fully warrant a reissue. and punctuation are according to the 1590
on the assumption that murder will not be
General Literature.
quarto, and there is a long list of the variant
committed. ” With this promise of a thrilling Bates (E. Katharine), The Coping Stone, 3/6
readings of the fourteen editions published
story the author takes us to a fashionable
between 1593 and 1674, set out with all the
Beard (Charles A. ) and Shultz (Birl E. ), Docu-
gambling place not far from Paris, where we ments on the State-Wide Initiative, Referendum
care we expected of the distinguished editor.
find a pretty English widow, her friend, a
The print is good, but the book is somewhat
and Recall, 8/6 net.
Polish lady
jwith a passion for play, a French
bulky.
This volume is rather a defence, by implica-
count with the same failing, and a double tion and by the precedent of actual adoption,
Pamphlets.
allowance of villains. A suggestion of the of the legislative system of initiative and Eccles (Caroline A. ), of the Emancipation of
supernatural serves to heighten the interest, referendum, than propagandist advocacy. It is Women, 3d. net.
and the story goes with a swing to a well- in the nature of a compilation of the machinery An able and modest thesis, predicting the
managed dénouement.
of constitutional provisions in force or pend- moral and spiritual exfoliation of woman,
Marchmont (Arthur W. ), The Ruby Heart of ing experiment in a large number of the as Whitman calls it, into equality with man as
Kishgar, 6/
States of the Union. It contains, in addition, a development of her representation in the
This tale hangs upon the fortunes of a much documentary material, official statistics, government of the State. It incidentally
wonderful jewel, stolen originally from a temple and many instructive adjudications revolving urges those who are devoted to the cause to
in Asia.
