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The British Science Guild, Of 6 John Street, Adelphi, Has

done a good piece of work for all who are interested in natural science by compiling and publishing A Catalogue of British Scientific and Technical Books (108. net). A......

Works Of Reference.—burke'a Landed Gentry Of Great...

A. Winton Thorpe (Burke Publishing Co., £6 6s. net), reappears in a thirteenth edition, which is much to be commended for its comprehensiveness and its accuracy. Since the last......

The Sexcentenary Of Dante's Death Was Celebrated In Many...

and not least worthily in Houston, Texas. We have received the April number of The Rice Institute Pamphlet-- published by the Rice Institute, which is, in fact, the university......

The Salmon Rivers And Lochs Of Scotland. By W. L.

Calder- wood. (Arnold. 25s. net.)—This is a second edition, carefully revised and illustrated with excellent photographs, of Mr. Calderwood's standard work on Scottish salmon......

Cricket And Cricketers. By Colonel Philip Trevor....

128. 6d. net.)-.Colonel Trevor has written another interesting book about the many famous cricketers - whom he has known. His chapters on " W. G.," " Ranji," Mr. C. B. Fry and......

Penny Royal. By J. B. Morton. (philip Allan And Co.

6s. 6d. net.)—A wholly delightful book for an odd moment. Mr. Morton has the rare power of handing on his good humour to the reader, and this light-hearted account of what five......

A Text-book Of Roman Law From Augustus To Justinian. 4

W. W. Buckland. (Cambridge University Press. 50s. net.)-• Professor Buckland's able treatise on Roman private law is a good deal more than a text-book, in the ordinary sense of......

The Excellent Article On National Prosperity And...

which we called attention when it appeared in the S eptember number of the Round Table, has now been reprinted sixpenny pamphlet. (Macmillan), which deserves a wide circulation.......

The Home Of Fadeless Splendour ; Or, Palestine Of To - Day.

By George Napier Whittingham. (Hutchinson. 24s. net.)—Mr. Whittingham does not profess to have given more than "a series of impressions jotted down " during a first visit to......

We Have Received The First Part Of The Fifth Volume

of the Cata- logue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in the Oriental Public Library at Bankipore (Patna : Superintendent Govern- ment Printing). This well-printed volume,......

The Rainbow Bridge. By Reginald Farrer. (arnold. 21s....

sad to think that this is the last of Mr. Farrer's charming books of travel in search of flowers, for he died a year ago in Upper Burmah. In this volume ho continued the story,......