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The Canadian Naval Question. By Clive Phimpps-wolley....

Phillipps-Wolley, whose name will be not unknown to readers of the Spectator, prints here some addresses delivered by him as vice-president of the Canadian Navy League. It is......

A Large Room. By Mrs. Henry Dndeney. (w. Heinemann....

Dudeney's heroine, Amass Meeks, is perfectly delightful as a child. The description of the long dull afternoons passed by her and her boy companion, Sebastien, in a smutty......

Readable Novels.—two Lovers And A Lighthouse. By Gertrude...

and Blackett. as. 6d.)—The story of an irregular alliance contracted by a Cabinet Minister and a lady who escapes from an unhappy marriage. The scene of the story is laid in......

The Faithful Failure. By Rosamond Napier. (duckworth And...

it is impossible to approve of the conduct of Christopher Serocold, the hero of this story, he is on the whole a very engaging figure. The present writer confesses to being......

A Book Of Sacred Verse. Compiled And Edited By William

Angus Knight. (R.T.S. Ss. 6d. net.)—There has been of late a plentiful crop of anthologies, but not one of them, we are sure, will be more welcome than the collection which we......

Novels.

THE STMPK1NS PLOT* READERS of Spanish Gold will hail another novel in " George Birmingham's" second manner, and their welcome will be all the more cordial when they find that......

Commercial Relations Of England And Scotland, 1603-1707....

(Cambridge University Press. 2s. net.)—This is the first of a series of "Girton College Studies" which is to appear under the editorship of Dr. Lilian Knowles. It is the quid......

Somt1 Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading los notice stuck Books if the week as have net been reserved for review in other forms.] Israel and Egypt. By W. K Flinders Petrie. (S.P.C.K. 2s. 6d.) —We......