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New Enrrion.—mr. C. H. Robinson's The Improvement Of...

Cities (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 61-25 net) has reached a fourth edition. Primarily a record and secondarily a thesis, it is useful to those who care for civic art, even outside the......

A Voyage In Space. By H. H. Turner, D.sc., F.r.s.

(S.P.C.K. 6s. net.)—The Savilian Professor at Oxford delivered these lectures to children at the Royal Institute in the Christmas holidays two years ago. In book-form they will......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this celumn does not necessarily preclude sampan: review.] The Man Napoleon. By William H. Hudson. (George G. Harrap and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Hudson's avowed aim is......

The Rediscovered Country. By Stewart Edward White....

10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. White " redis- covered " a tract of country lying on the German side of a barrier of mountains between British and German East Africa, and gives us his diary......

Fiction.

MRS. BALFAME.* Is one of the "Bab Ballads" the late Sir W. S. Gilbert described the career of a man who indemnified himself in middle age for long years of impeccable integrity......