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An English Farmer In Canada. By Herbert Grangs. (blackie And

Son. 3s. 6d. net.)—We must not look for literary merits in Mr. Grange's book, which simply professes to be an honest opinion of the possibilities of Canada as a farming country......

Mr. Frederic Harrison's Unexpected Incursion Into The•...

takes the form of a romance of the tenth century with Nicephorus Phocas as its hero, and Theophana as anti-heroine. The principal figures are almost without ex- ception......

Russia And Japan. By Baron Suyematsu. (probsthani And...

states the case for Japan plainly and temperately. The prima mali labes was, of course, when Russia, backed by Germany and France—France, at least, must have repented before......