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Students Of The Theatre Will Find In Mr. Thomas Dickinson's

The Contemporary .Drama of England (John Murray ; 7s. 6d. net) a very sound book of reference, and that it contains a great many intelligent judgments. When we open a book of......

The Centennial History Of Illinois. Vol. V. By E. L.

Bogart and J. M. Mathews. (Springfield : Illinois Central Commis- aion.)—The elaborate history of Illinois, written to commemorate the first centenary of the formation of the......

Mayflower,' After Being Fitted Out In The Thames, Sailed...

Southampton, where she was joined by the emigrants who had come from Leyden in the Speedwell.' Plymouth was her last port of call in the Old World. Southampton has therefore......

The Influence Of Animism On Islam. By Samuel M. Zwemer.

(New York : Macmillan. 2 dollars.)—These lectures delivered at Hartford and Princeton by a well-known American missionary who has spent many years in the Near East show very......

Ships' Boats. By Ernest W. Blocksidge. (longman& 25s....

treatise on the design and construction of ships' boats is written by a naval architect who has served on Lloyd's surveying staff. It is necessarily too technical to be......

The English Catalogue Of Books For 1919 (publishers'...

15s. net) is the eighty-third annual issue of an invaluable record. The editor states that 7,327 new books and 1,295 new editions making a total of 8,622, were published in 1919......

Currencies After The War. (harrison. 7s. 6d. Net.)—this...

first book published by the League of Nations. It has been compiled by the economic section of the secretariat, under the editorship of Mr. J. A. Salter, as a guide to the......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in ikis oolumn does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Two excellent little handbooks for the mothers of young families have just been published by Messrs.......