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M. Verhaeren Is Less Known In This Country Than Be

deserves' and we are glad to receive a competent translation of _t mile Verhaeren, by Stefan Zweig. In the same series are issued enonographs rn Balzac and Flaubert, by M. Emile......

The Grand Assize, By Hugh Carton (w. Heinemann, 3s. 6d.

stet), is an impressive picture of the Last Judgment, in which various types of our civilization-such as the Plutocrat, the Agitator, Circe and Mrs. Grundy, Caesar and the......

One Of The Most Entertaining Books Ever Written About India

is Francois Bernier's Travels in the Mogul Empire, A.D. 1656-1668 (Humphrey Milford, 6s. net). This handy edition is revised by Mr. Vincent A. Smith from the version of......

The Accomplished Editress Of The Late Professor Dowden's...

Miss West used the blue pencil too freely for the taste of his friends. She has now produced a second series of these Fragments from Old Letters (J. M. Dent and Sons, 4s. 6d.......

Among Valuable Contributions To The Study Of English...

can only mention Mrs. C. C. Stopes's collection of Tapers on Shakespeare's Environment (G. Bell and Sons, 7s. 6d. met), embodying many results of original research ; a scholarly......

Admirers Of The Distinguished Work Of M. Maurice Maeter-...

will welcome a new volume of his essays on occult subjects, The Unknown Guest, ably translated by Mr. A. Teixeira de Mattos (Methuen and Co., 5s. net). It deals with phan- tasms......

Women The World Over, By Mrs. Alec Tweedie (hutchinson And

Co., 16s. net), is a discursive gossip on feminine charac- teristics and activities in many lands, in the author's well- known style. Twenty-one of Mr. W. K. Haselden's humorous......