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Astronomical Curiosities. By J. Ellard Gore. (chatto And...

net.)—It would not be difficult to make a very pretty list of " curiosities " of the astronomical kind. How does it come about, for instance, that the dark side of the planet......

Travels In The Upper Egyptian Deserts. By Arthur E. P.

Weigall. (W. Black - wood and Sons. Is. 6d. net.)—Mr. Weigall is Chief Inspector in the Department of Antiquities in Upper Egypt, and he gives us here what we may call the......

The Problems Of Transportation In Canada. By The Hon. J.

P. B. Casgrsin. (Laflamme and Proulx, Quebec.)—This volume contains reprints of a number of speeches made during the last six years by the author, who is chairman of the Railway......

The Church And The Duty Of The Hour. By John

Huntley Skrine. (The Holywell Press, Oxford. 1d.)—Mr. Skrine urges on the clergy their duty in the matter of national defence. It is against them that the taunts about......

Tu Es Petrus. By The Rev. E. D. Stone. (b.

H. Blackwell, Oxford. 6d.)—Mr. Stone argues that two passages in St. Matthew of which great use has been made in controversy, xvi. 17-19 and xviii. 17-18, are probably......

Critical Essays Of The Seventeenth Century. Edited By J. E.

Spingarn. Vol. III., 1685-1700. (The Clarendon Press. 5s. net.) —This is the third and concluding volume of Professor Spingarn's work. The essays are twelve in number, the most......

Readings In American Government And Politics. By Charles...

Ph.D. (Macmillan and Co. 8s. net.)—Dr. Beard divides this work into three parts. Part I. deals with "Historical Foundations," from Colonial times downward to the development of......