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Florence Nightingale By Miss Irene Cooper Willis

A new life of Florence Nightingale (George Allen and Unwin, 7S. Bd.) was hardly needed. Miss Irene Cooper Willis, though she makes a good plain tale of the Crimean horrors,......

- Works Of Reference

Of all the reference books that we know Whitaker's Almanack (6s. and 3s.) is the most compact, comprehensive and accurate, and it - is a pleasure to commend it once again in its......

A Game Warden Among His Charges . By Captain Pitman

In our Natural History Museum, which is_ iu the world; are a great many specimens provide by Captain Pitman, who .has exhibited a genius for research into the ways of wild......

Letters Of Giacomo Puccini Edited By Giuseppe Adaml

The life story of Puccini is the story of the rose and the thorn. He came from a family who for five generations had been professional musicians, and accordingly compara- tively......

Finance—public & Private

The General Outlook AFTER an absence from the City of some weeks' duration, I am glad to note on my return some slight improve- ment in the feeling there. The general atmosphere......

.twelve Secrets Of The Caucasus By Essad Bey

A certain swaggering cynicism about Essad Bey's telling of l'ietive Secrets of the Caucasus (Nash and Grayson, 15s.) seems true to. type : the author has the Georgian tempera-......

What Dare I Think ?

By Professor Julian Huxley Everything which Professor Julian Huxley writes has distinction and interest. As a vivid scientific journalist who never descends to cheapness, he is......

The Dublin Magazine --

The current issue of the Dublin Magazine contains the second part of Mr. W. B. Yeats's article ": The Words upon , the Window Pane," in which he deals with various 'subjects......