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The Triple Stream. By Anthony Brett-James. (Bowes and Bowes. 17s.

6d.) MR. BaErr-JAMES has had the ingenious idea of setting out, in parallel columns, the prin- cipal events in English, German and French literature since 1531. For a given year there are in all_ five columns—one of births, one of deaths, and one of the principal works published in each language. The compila- tion has been done with discrimination and the result is a most useful compendium and excellent pasture for the browsing scholar.