16 MAY 1914, page 26

We Have Received The First Number Of A Sixpenny Journal

called the Indianan, "a weekly link with India.". The new journal, in which the Overland Mail and the Homeward Mail will be merged, defines its aim as to enlighten the ignorance......

Napoleon In Exile Elba. By Norwood Young. (stanley Paul....

net.)—lt is just a hundred years since Napoleon was forced to shift his Empire from France to Elba, and Mr. Young's conscientious piece of work thus makes a timely appearance,......

New Etanoxs.—chambers's Concise Gazetteer Of The World....

and W. Geddie. (W. and It. Chambers. Ga. net.)—This new edition of a handy and accurate work gives statistics in most cases as late as 1911. British Year-Book of Agriculture,......

The Small Rock Garden. By E. H. Jenkins. (country Life

Library. 2s. 6d. net.)—A valuable feature is the lists of plants suitable for the different kinds of gardens described—wall, rock, bog, moraine, and so on. But should not the......

Russia. By Karl Baedeker. (t. Fisher Unwin. 18s. Net.) —this

guide-book for Russia, now issued in England for the first time, is up to the standard long set by the firm of Baedeker—from the average tourist's point of view there could be......

Java And Her Neighbours. By Arthur S. Walcott. (g. P.

Putnam's Sons. 10a. 6d. net.)—In these respectable but some.. what pedestrian pages Mr. Walcott has "written up" the notes of three months' wanderings in Java, Celebes, the......

A Handbook To Rome. (ward, Lock, And Co. 2s. 6d.

net.)—. This addition to a well-known series of " Continental Hand- books " gives a clear and trustworthy—though necessarily a very condensed—account of the things worth seeing......

Some Books 01? The Week.

Nader this heading as retie. such Boas el th e treelt .a lays wol kA re...rya for mica in other forms.] The Campaign Guide. (National Unionist Association. 5s. net.)—This......

A Pocket Dictionary Of The English And French Languages :...

By Henri Sabersky. (H. Gravel and Co. 2s. net.)—This handy dictionary—of which the second or French-English part is in preparation—gives the English pronunciation according to......

The German Lyric. By John Lees. (j. M. Dent And

130115. 4s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Lees tells us that in England there are still two fairly strong preconceived notions about the German lyric—one that it is unduly sentimental, the......

An Unknown Son Of Napoleon (count Leon). By Hector...

(Eveleigh Nash. 10s. 6d. net.)—The hero of this book is not " unknown " in the strict sense of the word. It has long been known that Napoleon bad three acknow- ledged sons,......