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On The Writer's Last Visit To New York He Was

shown; through the glass partition of a publiiher's office, the young lady- who was responsible for the most successful book on etiquette which has yet been published. This......

The Last Two Volumes Of The Wells Thin Paper Edition

(Bern), 3s. 6d. cloth) are In the Days of the Cornet and Twelve Stories and a Dream:. A pocket Wells such as this is a - source of instruction and delight. In the Days of the......

Mrs. Bertrand Russell (dora Russell) Has Written An...

book in The Right to be Happy (Routledge, 5s.). We shall not review it, however, for the paving stones of her " " arc communism and free love. If the author's wild woild ever......

This Week's Books

IIonAcs: GREELEY'S mild blue eyes first opened at .Amherst, N N.H., on February 3rd, 1811. The story of his life, as the . busiest and boldest editor of nascent America in the......

Basil Netherby By The Late A. C. Benson (hutchinson, 6s.),

consists of two ghost stories, of which the first is the best, though a reading of either is calculated to make us dart down an unlighted passage feeling the teeth of an unseen......

Dr. Cyril Alington States That Elementary Christianity...

is nothing. more than a handbook for. Dr. Cyril Alington states that Elementary Christianity (Longman's, 2s. &I.) is nothing. more than a handbook for. beginners. But......

Four Distinguished People Started Life As...

Horne, who was one of the pioneers of the C.P.R., Andrew Carnegie, George Kennan, the traveller, and Thomas Alva Edison, whose life forms the subject of a very . interesting......

Meditation And Mental Prayer, By The Rev. Wilfred Knox...

.Allan, 3s. 6d.), is a simple and interesting. elementary guide to the discipline and exercises necessary. to the cultivation of the inner life. The Ignatian- method is dealt......

The Motor Car And Its Story Has A Charming Sentence

: " A little fellow of five years surprised me by asking what . energy is, and unfortunately his question could not be answered easily." Fellows of fifty, even, are still......

Mr. Gordon Home Is Quite Right When He Says That

English people who flock in their thousands to the French Riviera have a tendency to neglect the equally beautiful Italian Riviera, and that the Gulf of Spezia, loved by both......

Messrs. Seeley, Service And Co. Are To Be Congratulated On

publishing three excellent volumes in their " New : Library."— Wireless without Worry, by Mr. Robert Taman ; The Motor Car and its Story, by Mr. C. R. Gibson ; and Motor Cycling......