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Blessed Are The Dead : An Anthology. Compiled By A.

E. Manning Foster. (Cope and Ifenwick. 3s. ltd. Tho idea of this hook is to present Death beautifully as man through the eyes of ancient and modern poets, philosophers and......

Silver.

WALTER BAGEUOT once explained tlmt the reason why no few good books were written was that so few people who could write knew anything. Mr. White is in the fortunate position of......

L'he Collected Works Of Padraio Ii. Pearce. (mammal And Co.

7s. 6d. net.)—Cireumatances have tended to give the writing, of the late Padraie Pearao a greater prominence than they would perhepe -ordinarily have achieved, and the same......

Fiction.

Me. Gatswoneuv has written another very clever novel on a depressing but eternal theme. As one of his characters says: The man seems to think love is nothing but passion, and......

The Attractive And Useful Little Spanish Journal,...

fortnightly, lies completed its third volutes° with a bulky and lavishly illustrated anniversary ntunber, full of messages from public men like Sir Douglas. Haig and M. Itibot.......

The Flying Book, 1917. Edited By W. L. Wade. (longnaares

and Co. 3s. Gd. not.)—This book, though somewhat tantalizing in its enforced omission of the many new machines and devices that have been invented for the war, contains,......

Dulwich History And Romance. By Edwin T. Hall. (bickers. Is.

ed. net.)—Edward Alloys, the theatrical proprietor of Shake- speare's time, bought the manor of Dulwich iu 1005 and completed his College in 1616, for the reception of twelve......

Some Books Of The Week,

Levier ape column does not seensarily reds* soliftuest miss] /ran Heald : hero and Humorist. With a Preface by Sidney Dark. (C. Arthur Pearson. 35. Od.)—The late 111r. Heald, a......

Women's Work In War Time. By H. M. Usborne. (1'.

Werner Laurie. 2s. net.)—Mrs. Usborne insists in her Introduction to Chia useful handbook that girls must in future be trained like their brothers for the work which they wish......

Haggai, Zechariah, And Malachi. With Notes And...

E. Barnes, D.D. (Cambridge University Press. Is. Gd. net.)—This new volume of the well-known " Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges" leaves only Deuteronomy, which Principal......

Married Life. By May Edginton. (cassell And Co. Gs. Net.)—

Pendia advice to those about to marry—" Don't ! "—might well be applied to the way in which the hero and heroine of this novel face their responsibilities its the married state.......