14 AUGUST 1915, page 25

Philologists Should Be Interested By Sir James Wilson's...

upon Lowland Scotch as Spoken in the Lower Strathearn District of Perthshire (Oxford University Press, 5s. net). This is one of the first accounts that have been written of a......

Mrs. Fortesone's History Of Calwich Abbey (privately...

Co.) is a good example of the careful writing of local and family history which deserves so much encourage. meat and imitation. The Calwich estates in Staffordshire have had an......

Mr. Paul Myron, An American Writer With Some Apparent...

with China, writes in Our Chinese Chances (Chicago : Linebarger, $1.25 net) of the opportunities which American trade may find in China during the European war. Half the book is......

Kant's Semi-satirical "philosophical Essay" Upon...

was translated some years ago by Miss Campbell Smith and has now been reissued (Allen and Unwin, 2s. net). The principles upon which peace must rest are stated in the form of a.......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Noties in this column doss not necessorilY preduils subsequent reuicts.] Here is a Rumanian folk-tale which explains why cats always like to lie and bask on the doorstep :— "......

Booms Or Reference.—the Year-book Of The Universities Of...

1915 (Herbert Jenkins, 78. 6d. net), gives a con- spectus of the official calendars of the several universities of the British Empire.—The Christian Movement in the Japanese......

Messrs. Sifton, Praed, And Co., Ltd., The Well-known Map-...

(The Map House, 67 St. James's Street), have just published for the Balkan Committee a most interesting diagrammatic map of the Slav territories east of the Adriatic, drawn by......