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Professor Bergson Himself Admits That His Discussion Of...

Fisher Unwin, 2s. 6d. net), now first translated by E. E. Slosson, stops on the very threshold of the mystery; but it is well worth reading.-At the same time we have received......

All Students Of Public Health Will Appreciate The Brief But

comprehensive handbook of Messrs. J. E. Purvis and T. R. Hodgson on The Chemical Examination of Water, Sewage, Foods, and other Substances (Cambridge University Press, 9s. net).......

" See-saw." By G. B. Stern. (hutchinson And Co. 6s.)-

Caprice, up among the gods, pulls the strings, and the puppets of this earth must dance to her tune. This way and that, up and down, go the fortunes and favours of Iaconne and......

The Selection From Mr. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's Poetry...

published sixteen years ago, by Messrs. Henley and Wyndham, was "rigorously censored." The author now gives us his own final edition of his Poetical Works (Macmillan and Co., 2......

Our Recent Occupation Of Samoa Has Directed Many British...

to the romantic isles of the Pacific. Amongst new books on that quarter of the globe we may commend the late John Lafarge's Reminiscences of the South Seas (Grant Richards, 16s.......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Amongst recent contributions of value to the literature of economics we have to note the third part of......

There Is Probably No Recent Series Of Discoveries With...

to the ancient world more fascinating than that of which Mr. H. R. Hall gives a popular but trustworthy account in Aegean Archaeology (Philip Lee Warner, 12s. 6d. net). The work......

Readable Novel.-the Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton. By E.

Phillips Oppenheim. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)-In spite of the title, Mr. Oppenheim is for once not describing the careeer of a criminal. The book is concerned with the adventures of......