Mr. Walter Powell And Mr. Cashmere, Of The Birmingham Public
Libraries, have edited a remarkable Catalogue of the Birmingham Collection under their charge (Birmingham : Cornish). This bulky volume, containing over eleven hundred quarto......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent revise.] Disloyalty : the Blight of Pacifism. By Harold Owen. (Hurst and Blaekett. fig. net.)—Mr. Owen is......
Mrs. Whitmell's Poem Christ In Flanders, Which, Since Its...
appearance in the Spectator for September 11th, 1915, has found appreciative readers throughout the English-speaking world, has been set to music by Mr. Henry Guise (Novelle,......
Coal And Its Scientific Uses. By W. A. Bone. (longmans
and Co. 21s. net.)—Professor Bone's treatise is of great interest and importance. He discusses not merely the chemical composition and combustion of coal and the gas industries,......
We Are Glad To See That The Artists' Rifles Journal,
which has just issued its eighteenth monthly number, is still as informing and amusing as ever. The comic sketch entitled The Birth of a Rumour " is irresistible. It would be......
The Risc Of Ecclesiastical Control In Quebec. By W. A.
Riddell. (New York : Columbia University. London : Longmans and Co. 7s. Bd. net.)—This valuable essay by a Canadian Presbyterian on the history of the Roman Catholic Church in......
The Lau Islands (fiji) And Their Fairy Talcs And Folk -...
By T. R. St. Johnston. (Times Book Company.)—" Tusitala " would have liked these South Sea folk-tales, related to the author by old people in the Lau group between Fiji and......
How We Twisted — The Dragon's Tail. By Percival Hislam,...
Co. 2s. net.)—This lively and well-illustrated account of the famous exploits of the Vindictive ' and the block- ships at Zeebrugge, and of the Vindictive ' alone at Ostend, de-......
Sir William Ramsay As A Scientist And Man. By T.
0. Ohandhuri. (Calcutta and London :.Butterworth. 1 rupee 8 annas.)—This in- teresting tribute to Sir William Ramsay's memory by an Indian Professor of Chemistry at Patna......
The " Times" Documentary History Of The War. Vol. Vi.
(The Times.) — This is the first part of the " Overseas " section of this in- valuable collection of documents. It relates to Canada from the end of July, 1914, to the end of......
The War And The Press. By Sir Walter Raleigh. (clarendon
Press. 9d. net.)—This interesting and sensible paper was first read to the Eton College Essay Society last March. When it was redelivered in part at Mill Hill last July, a......
Messrs. George Philip And Son Have Issued A New Strategical
Record Map of the Western Front (2s. net), printed in colours, which covers Northern France, Belgium, and Western Germany, and marks the various battle-fronts from 1914 to May......
The Palace Of Westminster. By H. F. Westlake. (john Lane.
ls, net.)—Now that London has so many visitors from oversee, this, well-written and authoritative little guide to those portions of the Palace of Westminster which are open to......
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