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Two Anthologies, Both Published By George Bell And Sons, May

be mentioned together. These are The Poetic Old World, Compiled by Lucy M. Humphrey, and Poems for Travellers, Compiled by Mary R. J. Dubois (5s. each). There is no small......

So11] Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the souk as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] 1912? Germany and Sea Power. By Archibald R. Colquhoun. (Sir Isaac......

Rev. John. Duncan, D.d. By J. B. Allan, B.d. (hodder

and Stoughton. 5s.)—Dr. John Duncan was the minister of a Congregational church at Aberdeen. His mother belonged to the Established Church ; his father was a Baptist. His own......

The History Sheet, Or Case - Paper System. By Henry J....

and others. (P S King and Son. 2s. net.)—This little volume contains five papers read at Poor Law Conferences on the "Case- Paper System." This, to put the matter briefly, is a......

Hobbes' Leviathan. With An Essay By The Late W. G.

Pogson Smith. (The Clarendon Press. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Pogson Smith's introductory essay is only too short. It is, we are given to under- stand, but a very small part of a great......

Readable Novga.s.—northern Lights. By Gilbert Parker....

collection of stories, told with Sir Gilbert Parker's wonted power, which have life in the Far West for their subject. The making of the Canadian Pacific divides, we are told,......

The Negro Problem. By William P. Pickett (g. P. Putnam's

Sons, 10s. 6d. net.)—There are some books which a cautious reviewer is more disposed to describe than to criticise, and this is one of them. Mr. Pickett deals with the solutions......

All Saints' Church, Maldon. By The Rev. L. Hughes. (gower*,

Malden. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Hughes has discharged one of the duties of a parish priest by describing his church and giving a history of the parish to which it is attached. The......

British Year Book Of Agriculture. (vinton And Co. 5s....

Part L of this volume, now in its second year of publication, supplies information about Government Departments, Agricultural Societies, associations of growers, &c. In Part IL......