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Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not been • seerred for review in other forms.] A Short History of the British in India. By Arthur D. Innes (Methuen......

Truth Dexter. By Sidney Mccall. (c. A. Pearson. 6s.)—the...

of this novel is the well-worn one of the inginue from the provinces suddenly married by the case-hardened man of society, and transplanted from her native wilds into the hotbed......

Three Books About What Some People Think Will Be The

indoor game of the future may be mentioned together, Table-Tennis : a Handbook to Ping - Pong, by M. J. G. Ritchie and Walter Harrison (C. Arthur Pearson, ls.) ; How to Ploy......

Kent And The Great Civil War. By H. F. Abell.

(Kentish Express Office, Ashford.)—Mr. Abell, who has studied to good purpose the county history of Kent, brings out effectively the peculiar attitude assumed by the county. It......

In The "little Library" (methuen And Co., Is. 6d. Net)

we have a very pleasing little volume, The Compleat Angler, by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. This is reprinted from the fifth edition, the last that received Walton's own......

New Editions.—the Land Of The Ll'ine. By A. J. Drexel

Biddle. 2 vols. (Drexel Biddle.)—These two volumes include a history, a gazetteer, and a general description, social, commercial, and technical, of the Madeira Islands (there......

On Commando, By George Hansby Russell. (hutchinson And...

Russell has applied to an episode of the South African War something of the dramatic invention of Mr. Stanley Weyman. His heroine, Mary Lorimer, is a charming English girl......

We Have Received The Second Half-yearly Volume...

of Country Life (20 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, 21s.) It is not easy to give a compendious account of a folio volume containing between eight and nine hundred pages, and a......