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The Book Of Joshua. Edited By G. A. Cooke. (cambridge

University Press. 2s. 3d. net.)—Canon Cooke has revised his scholarly edition of Joshua, incorporating notes on the latest discoveries of the Palestine Exploration Fund. His......

The Divine Liturgy Of The Presanctified Of St. Gregory The

Dialogist. The Greek Text with a rendering in English. (Williams and Norgate. 3s. 6d. net.)—This finely printed little book, the latest addition to a series of service-books......

Wonss Or Reference. — The Annual Register For 1917....

24s. net.)—It is very convenient to have so promptly this record of the past year, with its many great events. The course of the war is outlined briefly but clearly in the first......

Mr. Whitney Warren Has Sent Us An Interesting Pamphlet By

him- self on The Just Claims of Italy (50 cents), in which the questions of the Trentino, Trieste, and the Adriatic are clearly explained with the help of some very instructive......

Norman Institutions. By C. H. Haskins. (h. Milford. 12s....

Haskins of Harvard has at last collected, in a revised form, his patient studies of the Constitutional history of Normandy, from the reign of William the Conqueror to that of......

Frontiers : A Study In Political Geography. By C. B.

Fawcett. (Clarendon Press. 3s. net.)—This able and suggestive little book is a good introduction to the study of a most difficult subject. The author inclines to the view that......

The World's Battle Fronts At A Glance (g. Philip And

Son, ls. 3d.) is a useful little pamphlet, containing thirty-two small coloured maps of the many areas in which there is or has been fighting. The Western Front is given as it......

Messrs. Edward Stanford Have Published An Instructive...

Europe, Africa, and Western Asia (2s. ad net), showing the areas embraced by Mittel-Europa and Mittel-Afrika. Probably the Pan-German dreams are by now more ambitious still.......

Alcohol : Its Action On The Human Organism. (stationery...

2s. 6d. net.)—The Central Control Board in November, 1916, appointed an expert Advisory Committee to consider the physio- logical action of alcohol. The provisional conclusions......

The April Number Of The Geographical Journal (2s.)...

excellent and timely paper by Dr. E. W. G. Masterman on " The Jordan -Valley and its Lakes," dealing with country in which General Allenby is now operating. There is also an......