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(Continued from page 435.) Scientific research is perhaps a little less undervalued to-day in England than it used to be, but • there• are still many so-called practical men who......

• Mr. T. Walter Hall Has Earned- The Gratitude Of

students of local history, especially in and= near Sheffield, . by his Descriptive Catalogue of Land Charters from the Bosaille and Lindsay Collections (Sheffield : J. W.......

Professor Mackinnon Has Now Completed In A Fourth Volume...

16s.) his weighty and learned study of Luther and the Reformation. This voluine, covering the stormy period from 1530 to Luther's death in 1546, is entitled Vindi- cation of the......

French Interest In The History Of New France Is Indicated

by a delightful reprint of Trois Voyages au Canada, edited by M. Bertrand Guegan, that comes to us from Paris (Editions du Carrefour : 60 francs). This engaging quarto contains......

Mr. Madge,aru, When The Nationalist Pe,asant. Party Came...

in Rumania, in 1928, was made Minister of Finance in Dr. Maniu's Cabinet. He is, therefore, responsible for most of the economic policy which he expounds in Rumania's New......

Dr. James A. Williamson Has Revived And Enlarged His...

Short History of - British Expansion for a new edition in two volumes (Macmillan, 15s. each). Since the book appeared eight years 'ago, the constitution of the British Empire......

The Oil Industry From Time To Time Gives Rise To

heated political controversy, but its economicandconnutiercial aspects are little understood - by the "public. There was thus a • real need for Mr. Christopher sT:Brunnei's......

• The Volume Of The Proceedings Of The British Academy

for 1927 (H. - Milford, • 30i.)- contains, as usual, some important papers on philosophy, history; literature and art. We may mention at least three of these. Professor......

The Scholartis Press Has Done Well To Include In Its

series of eighteenth-century. novels that famous tale by the young Goethe, The Sorrows of Werther (10s. 6d.). For this sentimental love story, reflecting in part the author's......

For The Serious Study Of Shakespeare's Life And Times The

Dugdale Society's Minutes and Accounts of the Corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon is invaluable. The late Richard Savage began the transcription and Mr. Edgar Fripp edits the......