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Toynbee Hall Report, 1906 - 7. (toynbee Hall,...

do better than indicate some of the chief activities of Toynbee Hall. There are University Extension courses, evening classes and other educational opportunities, smoking......

The Oxford English Dictionary. Edited By Dr. James A. H.

Murray. " Polygenous—Premious." Vol. VII. (Clarendon Press. 'is. 6d. Treble Section.)—The total number of words in this treble section amounts to 5,'726; they occupy 190 pages......

The Immortal Light. By John Maslin. (cassell And Co. 0.)

—That this tale of exploration in the Antarctic Circle is not very credible will be understood when it is stated that the first thing which the reader is asked to believe is the......

Novels.

THE CRESTED SEAS.* THOUGH there is plenty of incident and excitement in Mr. Connolly's new volume of sea stories, greater prominence is assigned to the psychology of the......

Irish Neighbours. By Jane Barlow. (hutchinson And Co....

is a collection of delightful stories, and even those readers who are repelled by the Irish dialect should conquer their prejudices for the sake of enjoying these charming......

Some Books Of The Week.

[tinder this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not been reserved for review in other forms.1 It is almost a commonplace that Boswell's Life of Johnson is as good......

The Thornton Device. By The Hon. Mrs. Norman Grosvenor. (a.

Constable and Co. 6s.)—Mrs. Grosvenor's earlier novel led us to expect something out of the common from her new venture, and in a sense the expectation has not been......

Scars. By Christopher Stone. (w. Heinemann. • 6s.)—a...

hereditary madness, the tendency to which is much increased by a fortune which is left to the hero.—Comrade John. By Merwin Webster. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—A curious picture of......