13 DECEMBER 1913, page 24

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not bee% reserved for review in other forms.] A History of Housing Reform. (The National Unionist Association, St.......

Boobs Of Reference.—who's Who, 1914. (a. And C. Black. 15s.

net.)—There is never any diminution in the annual pleasure with which we open the most fascinating of all reference-books. New treasures are constantly starting to our eyes from......

Gift-book S,

SOME MORE OS' BOOKS. AN early selection of new boys' stories appeared in our columns last month, but we have received many more from the publishers during the last weeks. The......

Two Novelists' Stories.

FROM two popular writers of fiction come new stories, which are published with coloured illustrations and all the appear- ance of " gift-books." Mr. de Vera Stacpoole's Bird Cay......

" Squaring The Circle" : A History Of The Problem.

By E. W. Hobson. (Cambridge University Press. 3s. net.)— Others besides mathematicians will find interest in Professor Hobson's history of a problem which puzzled humanity for......