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As The Rent Restriction Acts Are By No Means Clearly

worded, puzzled householders may be recommended to read a pamphlet, The Tenants' Emergency Charter (Oliver and Boyd, 7d.), which explains the Acts with commendable lucidity. The......

Santo Domingo. By Otto Schoeurich. (macmillan. )6s,...

comprehensive aecount of the negro Republic of Santo Domingo is, according to the American author, the first that has been written for half-a-century. The island which Santo......

Costa Berling's Saga. By Selma Lagerlof. (h. Milford. 2...

12s. 6d. net.)—The American Scandinavian Foundatiou has added to its scholarly series of Scandinavian classics a com- plete translation from the Swedish of Miss Lagerltirs......

The Indo-british Association Has Issued A Pamphlet On The...

Situation in India, which deals in a highly instructive way with " the defection of the Moderates," to whom the Montagu-Chelmsford Report was supposed to appeal. We now find the......

An Article On " Parliament And Foreign Affairs,...

Mr. E. R. Tumor in the current English Historical Resit's is an interesting review of the efforts of Parliament to control the Royal prerogative• in regard to the making of war......

A Handbook For Travellers In India,burma,and Ceylon....

net.)—Mr. 0. E. Buckland, who was responsible for a muoh.revised ninth edition of this well-known handbook just before the war, has prepared a tenth edition, which will be in......

A New In-lingual Monthly, The New World (2s. 6d. Net),

has just made its appearance. It is published in London and in Paris, and its object is to strengthen the friendship between Great Britain, France, and America as the only sound......

Some Books Of The Week.

INuliee is this alums don set iieceerrily preclude eubsequod THE MAY Moernmes.—There is a timely article in the N ine- teenth Century on "The Right to Idle," by Mr. J. A. R.......