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Seeds Of Pine. By Jitney Canuck. (hodder And Stoughton....

writer of Seeds of Pine has in abundance the gift of words and the joy of them. She can make a sentence as round and sweet as you please. " The roses are in full blast, and all......

In His Valuable Work On Sea Insurance (macmillan And Co.,

14s. net) Dr. William Gow gives an authoritative statement of the provisions of the Marine Insurance Act of 1906, together with a supplement consisting of the essential parts of......

Messrs. G. Allen And Unwin Have Issued A Timely Reprint

of The Franco-German War, 1870-71 (21s.), translated from a well-known German work by the late Sir P. Maurice—the best account available to the non-military English reader.......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Messrs. Stevens and Sons have issued two valuable contribu- tions to the discussion of legal questions......

Fiction.

THE PRICE OF LOVE.* MR. ARNOLD BENNETT, more fortunate than Homer, for whom "seven wealthy States" contended when be was dead " through which the living Homer begged his bread,"......

A History Of England And Greater Britain. By A. L.

Cross. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—In this brightly written and closely packed volume Professor Cross, of Michigan University, traces the development of the English people......

We Wish To Recommend To Our Readers Two Pamphlets On

the causes of the war which are of high interest and merit. Our Just Cause (W. Heinemann, le. net) is a repertory of " facts about the war for ready reference," aptly described......

The Interest Which Americans Take In Constitutional...

by their steady output of conscientious and learned monographs. Amongst recent works of this kind we may call attention to Dr. Gaillard Hunt's history of The Department of State......

Amongst Miscellaneous Publications Relating To The War,...

Germany's Great Lie (Hutchinson and Co., 1s. net), in which Mr. Douglas Sladen performs the useful task of reprinting the semi-official German justification of the war, prepared......