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Work Of Referbnce.—the Year's Art, 1920, Compiled By A. C.

R. Carter (Hutchinson, 75. 6d. net), is the forty-first annual Witte of a most useful book. The editor in his Preface regrets that our sculptors have not distinguished......

Mr. George Bourne In William Smith,potteraral Farmer...

6s. net) has compiled from the conversation of an old uncle and aunt a charming account of country life between 1790 and 1858. His spectacles are only pleasantly rose-coloured,......

The Press In War-time. By Sir Edward Cook. (macmillan. 7s.

6d. net.)—The late Sir Edward Cook did much by his tact and experience to allay the friction caused by the Press Bureau, or, to speak more accurately, by the various Departments......

In Assisi (macmillan, 42s.) Sir William Richmond Has Pro-...

a charming volume, part picture-book, part guide-book, describing the town of Assisi and life in the Franciscan monas- tery there. Tho water-colours with which it is illustrated......