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Croker, The Famous Tammany "boss," Gives, In Somewhat...

language, an extremely vivid picture of municipal politics in New York at a time which from descriptions of incidents in the book and by the illustrations we should judge......

Highways And Byways In Derbyshire.

Highways and Byways in Derbyshire. By J. B. Firth. (Mac- millan and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Firth remarks that his book is of "narration rather than description." He tells the reader where......

The House Of Merrilees. By Archibald Marshall. (alston...

"good wine needs no bush," it stands to reason that a very large shrub displayed before the door of an inn is apt to make the intending guest rather chary of testing the quality......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of thi week as have not been reserved for IMAM in other forms.] Gladstone Ghosts. By Cecil Chesterton. (Brown, Langham, and Co. 2e. 6d.......

Current Literature.

THE ITALIAN POETS. The Italian Poets since Dante. By William Everett. (Duck- worth and Co. 65. net.)—Mr. Everett begins with Petrarch and onds with Leopardi. The interval is......