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Aeschylus In English Verse. Part I.: The Seven Against...

; The Persians. By Arthur S. Way. (Macmillan and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Way is surely the most indefatigable of translators. To Homer and Euripides he is now adding Aeschylus. We......

The Annual Of The British School In Athens. (macmillan And

Co. 21s. net.)—The Cretan explorations still occupy a consider- able space in the year's proceedings. Mr. Evans, indeed, gives only a brief account of the work at Cnossus ; but......

Building Societies. By Sir E. Brabrook, C.b. (p. S. King

and Son. ls. net.)—A building society, keeping strictly to its purpose of helping its members to provide themselves with freehold houses, is an admirable thing. It is true that......

Strongholds Of The Barons. By J. Ibo Ball, M.a. (arnold

Fairbairns. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Ball gives a brief introduction on castle building, and then furnishes us with between fifty and sixty photographs of actual buildings, whether......

American History And Government. By James Albert Wood-...

and Thomas Francis Moran, Ph.D. (Longmans and Co. 6s. net.)—We cannot say that the tone and temper of this "Textbook on the History and Civil Government of the United States of......

The New Earth. By W. S. Harwood. (macmillan And Co.

Is. 6d. net.)—This somewhat ambiguous title—it reminds us, by contraries, of a familiar story about "Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds "—is really a book about scientific......