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The Position Of Woman : Actual And Ideal. With Preface

by Sir Oliver Lodge. (James Nisbet and Co. 3s. Gd.) — Our notice of this book will be brief. It is the outcome of meetings organized by a local committee at E Iinburgh at which......

A Bird In The Hand. By Rosalind Denis-browne. (methuen And

Co. 2s. 6d.)—In this volume we have twelve essays, chiefly about women and women's affairs. Now an essay is a very difficult thing to write well, and Miss Denis-Browne has not......

We Have Received The Twelfth And Concluding Volume Of The

Works of James Buchanan. (J. B. Lippincott Company. 21s. net.) —This contains Mr. Buchanan's account of his administration (just preceding, it will be remembered, the outbreak......

/slam Lands. By M. M. Shoemaker. (g. P. Putnam's Sons.

12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Shoemaker is most readable when he talks about the Sudan. He is very frank and a great gossip in a cosmopolitan fashion. Slatin Pasha amuses him and interests......

Nooks And Corners Of Yorkshire. By S. S. Fletcher. (e

veleigh Nash. 2s. 6d. net.)—No one has a better right to make a book about Yorkshire than has Mr. Fletcher. He has proved this sufficiently by some admirable fiction. He now......

Letters From Finland. By Rosalind Travers. (kagan Paul...

is. 6d. net.)—The epistolary form of travel talk is highly convenient, and perhaps the most satisfactory way of conveying to others the intimate life of a people, but it lacks......

The New Issue Of National - Defence, The Quarterly Organ Of

the National Defence Association (Hugh Rees, 119 Pall Mall, S.W., 2s. 6d. net), has many excellent and attractive articles. "An Old Hand" makes his "Foreign Chronique " as......