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Some New Cookery Books

Good Housekeeping Cookery Book. By Florence B. Jack. (Good Housekeeping Magazine. 2s. 6d. net.) Cakes and Ale and The Flowing Bowl. By Edward Spencer. (Stanley Paul and Co. 2s.......

We Would Call The Attention Of Our Readers To Mr.

David , Master's book New Cancer Facts (Bodley Head). In it he gives an account of Dr. Louis Sambon's careful investigations and his startling conclusions. Dr. Sambon believes......

* * * * Sir Francis Newbolt's Out Of Court

(Philip Allan) is a very well written and very amusing collection of essays. The most notable of them is an article on " Legal Errors in Fiction." It is Anthony Trollope who......

Herr Friedrich Adler, The Secretary Of The Labour And...

International, takes the report of the British Trades Union delegation to Russia, and points out very acutely the inconsistencies and blindnesses and partialities of which it is......

This Week's Books

CAPTAIN B. H. LIDDELL HART in Paris; or, The Future of War (Kegan Paul) gives a more inclusive survey of possible weapons of warfare than Mr. Haldane in his Callinicus. He......

The Clarendon Press Sends Us The First Two Volumes Of

its edition of Ben Jonson, to be completed in ten volumes. The editors are Professor C. H. Herford and Mr. Percy Simpson, and they seem from these two volumes, The Man and His......

We Have Received From Messrs. Kegan Paul An Edition Of

Lange's The History of Materialism, an immense and valuable work now published as one volume. * * * *......

Seventh Competition

THE EDITOR OFFERS A PRIZE OF £5 FOR AN OUTLINE OF HISTORY IN NOT MORE THAN 100 WORDS OF PROSE. BREVITY i s dangerous : it may be that the Spartans never understood one another.......