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On The Soul Of China, Which Has Been Carefully Translated

by . Mr. .1. H . Reece (Cape, 15s.). Dr. Wilhelm is less concerned with politics than with the people and their age-long habits and traditions, and his chapters on his journeys......

Durhain Castle Is In Danger Of Sliding Into The Wear.

How great a loss that would be, readers of the third volume of the Victoria History of the County 'of Durham may discover for themselves if they do not know the famous pile. Mr.......

Turkestan In The Early Centuries Of Our Era Was A

meeting ground of religions and cultures. Its ancient cities and monasteries, deserted for ages and half buried in sand, are now yielding up their secrets, Sir Aurel Stein has......

It Is Questionable Whether For Thoughtful Readers There...

better value in modern literature than that offered by the series of reprints (Longmans, Green, ls. or 8d. each) from The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. Man- chester may......

A Library List

TB,AVEL AND SPORT :-Labrador Looks at the Orient. By Sir Wilfred Grenfell. (Jarrolds. 15s.)-Slaves of the Sun: By Ferdinand Ossendowski. Translated by H. C. Stevens'. (Allen and......

General Knowledge Questions

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. G. V. Butler, Portota Royal School, Enniskillen, North Ireland, for the......