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Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this colonels does not necessarily preclude subse q uent review.] Wilkes and the City. By Sir William Treloar. (John Murrray. 12s. net. )—This is a very readable Life......

Selections From The Italian Poets. Selections From The...

Writers. With Critical Introductions by Ernesto Grillo. (Biocide and Son. 7s. 6d. net each.)—These two fascinating volumes of good Italian prose and poetry, with brief and......

A Dictionary Of Similes. By F. J. Wilstack. (harrap. 10er.

6d. net.)—Mr. Wilstack has made a hobby of collecting similes for the past quarter of a. century, and is, he says, the first to publish a classified dietionary of dunks • from......

Inside The British Isles. By Arthur Gleason. (j. Lane. 5s.

net.) —This interesting and dogmatic book records the impressions of an American journalist, a Socialist, who naturally associated with the little Socialist cliques in this......

Illustrations Of Chaucer's England. Edited By Dorothy...

Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Miss Hughes has selected passages from Froissart and other chroniclers of the age of the Black Prince, Wycliffe, and Chaucer to illustrate the period in its......

Charlotte Bronte, 1816 - 1916. Edited By Butler Wood. (t....

Unwin. 8s. 6d. net.)—Next to Mrs. Gaskell's biography, this is per- haps the most interesting book yet published about the Bront8 sisters. It contains a dozen essays read to the......

The Despatches Of Lord French. (chapman And Hall. 21s. Net.

)—In this handsome and well-printed volume, issued in a limited edition, are reprinted Lord French's historic despatches from France, be- ginning with the story of Mons and the......

Two Brave Brothers. By H. F. Morris. (r. J. James.

10s. 6d. net.)—This book contains memoirs of the late C. S. Rolls, the first man to fly across the Channel from England to France and back, and of his brother, Lord Llangattook,......

Locke's Theory Of _knowledge And Its Historical...

Gibson. (Cambridge University Press. 10s. 6d. net.)— Professor Gibson's admirably written treatise gives a new view of the principles of Locke's famous Essay concern- ing Human......

Fiction.

THE GREEN MIRROR.* WITH the necessary changes, the theme of Mr. Walpole's novel is that of Turgenieff's Fathers and Sons. But there is none of Turgenieff's austere......

Readable Novels.—the Wanderer On A Thousand Hills. By...

(John Lane. Os.)—A very clever novel of Chinese life. The author has a marvellous faculty for enabling her readers to see life from the Oriental point of view.—Our Miss York. By......