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Cloud Cuckoo Land. By Naomi Mitchison. (Cape. 7s. 6d. nct.)—Another.

of Mrs. Mitehison's enchanting and intimate _stories of life in ancient Greece, this time during the fast year( of the Peloponnesian War. The authoress is so sure of her learning that she does not obtrude it, caring more to bring sharply to her readers pictures of Athens, of the Islands, of ships, farms and olive groves, to make us familiar with a few men and women of that vanished but far-famed civilization. The actual story is well conceived, full of incident and humanity.