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A History Of The Minories, London. By E. M. Tomlinson.

(Murray. 7s. 6d. net.)—This reissue is surprisingly well pro- duced for its price. It : is a work of erudition in its subject ; but there are also interesting digressions on......

Reprints.

The Abbey Classics. (Chapman and Dodd. 3s. 6d. net each.)—We can remember no series of popular reprints which began as auspiciously as the Abbey Classics. None, we think, has......

Pixies' Plot.t There Is Unquestionably Something Very...

Eden Phillpotts's verse. There is much in it which might pain the sensitive, but as a matter of fact does not. In " The Sandhills," for instance, the charm is very apparent, as......

Sir William Watson.t

Is it because it is an old favourite with me that I cannot help thinking Sir William Watson's " The Father of the Forest " so very much the best poem in the present collection Y......

A De La Mare Picture Book.* Illustrators Are Terribly Apt

to emphasize Mr. de la Mare's faults. They choose for illustration poems where the touch has not been so to say, quite firm on the spider's string, or where the horns of elfiand......

The Substitute Millionaire. By Hulbert Footner. (collins....

second edition of one of Mr. Footner's not very able " stories of love and adventure," with the inevitable end that only villains and heroes fail to anticipate.......