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Messrs. George Allen and Unwin publish the first five volumes

of a new illustrated series, "The Sesame Library," amongst which we specially welcome a timely reprint of Sir J. K. Laughton's Nelson and his Companions in Arms (is. net).

—From Messrs. G. Bell and Sons come twenty volumes of " Bohn's Popular Library," including Munro's translation of Lucretius and a delightful collection of Select Letters by Horace Walpole (1s. net each).