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A Melancholy Interest Attaches To A Handbook On Income Tax,

Weights and Measures, Stamp Duties and Coinage published by the British Bank of South Africa, which gives particulars of these subjects for most countries. A comparative table......

Does It Very Well.—the 1vidow. By Mrs. Baillie Rey- Nolds.

(Cassell. 7s. net.) — A romantic post - war story in which it appears that South-Eastern Europe is to remain a seething centre of political intrigue with eoimtless little......

An Admirable Edition Of M. Jusserand's La Vie Nomads Has

just been issued for use in schools, under the care of Mr. A. Wilson-Green (Cambridge University Press, 4s. net). The young French students for whom such fascinating books as......

Stories Of The Ships. By Lewis It. Freeman. (j. Murray.

is. net.)—In the first part of this interesting book Mr.Freeman has collected personal narratives of the battle of the Falklands as viewed from H.M.S. Cornwall,' and of the......

The Australians ; Their Final Campaign, 1918. By F. M.

Cutlack. (Sampson Low. 10s. 8d. net.)—The Australian Corps surpassed themselves last spring when they were hastily moved from Flanders to the Somme to check the enemy's advance.......

Fiction.

CHRISTOPHER AND COLUMBUS.. THE author of Elizabeth and her German Garden is now to be added to the long list of war-novelists, though the principal characters in her new book......

Henry Charles Beeching. In Memoriam. (norwich : Public...

6d. net.)—Mr. 0. A. Stephen, the City Librarian of Norwich, has compiled a very full bibliography. with notes, of the writings of the late Dean of Norwich. To this is prefixed a......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in Mit column doer not necessarily pre•lale suldrytent review.] The Taxation of Capital. By Sir A. W. Seward and W. E. Willan. (Waterlow. 18s. 6d. net.)—The authors of......