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Law And Politics In The Middle Ages. By Edward Jenks..

(John Murray. 12s.)—This is an interesting book on an interesting and little known subject, and is written in an interesting style. Yet the effect of a perusal on the reader is......

Jeanne D'arc. Par Mgr. Le Nordez. (hachette Et Cie. 20

francs.)—" Legends are the smiles of history," says Mgr. Le Nordez at the beginning of this book, as a reason for including a great many of the traditions which cling round the......

Alien Immigrants To England. By W. Cunningham, D.d- (swan...

and Co.)—This is the first volume of a new• series of volumes to be known as "The Social England Series," the publication of which, we are assured, " rests upon the conviction......

Current Literature.

The English Black Monks of St. Benedict. By the Rev. Ethelred L. Taunton. 2 vols. (J. C. Nimmo. 21s. net.)—There was a call for this book, for it certainly fills up a gap in......