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The League Of Nations Union, Which Rightly Makes Full Use

of the printed word, has altered the form of its monthly journal and changed the title to To-day and To-morrow (Hodder and Stoughton, 6d.). The first number of the new issue......

Mr. Arthur T. Bolton, The Energetic Curator Of Sir John

Soane's Museum, has issued a tenth edition of the official Descrip- tion of the House and Museum (Is.), which may be had at the house. He has reverted to the text of Soane's own......

The Clarendon Press Has Issued A New Part Of The

tenth volume of the great Oxford English Dictionary. This part, edited by Dr. Craigie (2s. 6d. net), completes the letter " V," from " Visor " to " Vywer," an obsolete form of "......

From Persian Uplands. By F. Hale. (constable. 10s. 6d. Net.)

—Mr. Hale was stationed from. 1913 to 1917 at Birjand, in Eastern Persia, and from 1917 onwards at Kermanshah, near the Western frontier. This book contains his letters to a......

The Unsolved .riddle Of Social Justice. By Stephen...

5s. net.)—Mr. Leacock is best known as a humorist, but this thoughtful essay reminds us that he is by profession a teacher of political economy. He remarks on the power of the......

The Reign Of .religion In Contemporary Philosophy. By S....

M.A., Professor of Philosophy, the University of Mysore. (Macmillan. 12s. net.)--In the present state of Western speculation an Indian philosopher has every chance .• of......

Shakespeare's Self. By W. Teignmauth Shore. (philip Allan...

is a concise but very readable biography, telling all of importance that is known about Shakespeare's life, and discriminating carefully between ascertained facts, tra- dition......

The Christian East, Edited By Dr. Sparrow Simpson, Is A

new quarterly published for the Anglican and Eastern Church Association and devoted to the study of the Eastern Churches (S.P.C.K., Is. 6d. net). It is a scholarly production.......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice Is this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] In the April number of Discovery (6d.), which continues to be of great interest as a journal at once......

Before Mr. Fisher Made His Recent Proposal In Regard' To

religious teaching in the schools, the Dean and Chapter of Worcester had circulated a set of Remarks on the Draft Scheme of the City of Wow-der .Education: Department (Worcester......

The Unrest In Egypt. By Somers Clarke. (cairo: Printing...

of the French Institute of Archaeology.)—Mr. Clarke, an archaeologist who has lived for many years in Egypt, throws light, in this well-written pamphlet, on the causes of the......