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An Analysis Of The Nutritional System Of A Primitive People

opens out a new, and very interesting, field of research, and it is fitting that a woman should be a pioneer in this direction, though others, notably Dr. Steffansson among the......

Trout Flies By A. Courtney Williams

Is it an angling heresy to say that the flyfisher—the wet-fly fisher—is and must be a rank empiricist ? Thus, of the whole fly-question the late and much lamented H. T.......

Current Literature

HUNTED THROUGH CENTRAL ASIA By P. S. Nazaroff We start with the "author awaiting execution—a grimly exciting prelude—for his anti-Bolshevik sympathies : but his real political......

Financial Notes

CONVERSION PLAN PROGRESS. INTEREST in the stock markets has centred mainly in the gilt- edged section during the past week, when British Government securities well maintained......

New Zealand Finances.

At the present time, when New Zealand securities have been heavily bought as an alternative to War Loan and yields have dropped to 41 per cent. or less, special interest......

The Treaty And The Fourteen Points. By B. G. De

Montmorency. The literature of the peace treaties is considerable, and Mr. de Montmorency has added to it a curious example. It is by no means the " very remarkable book " his......

Modern Greece: A Chronicle And A Survey By John Mavrogordato

Mr. John Mavrogordato's Modern Greece : A Chronicle and a Survey (Macmillan, 10s. 6d.), is a short book and wears an air of modesty which should not blind the reader to its......

Time Effects Of Lausanne.

The influence of Lausanne on the investment markets was more evident in anticipation than in the realization of a settlement which is considerably more favourable than many......