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Each-new Book On Tennis Seems Better Than The Last. Major

J. -C. • S.- Bendel', who is an instructor in Cannes and London, has written - in Lawn Tennis• (Cassell, 7s: 6d.) a really very useful- exposition of the game. ' LtiWn tennis-......

A Book Of The Moment

WALT WHITMAN [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] I HOPE every lover of poetry, wherever the English language is revered, will read this luciferous......

Among Recent Volumes Of Poetry Received We Would Mention-

Mr. Wilfrid_ Thorley's charmingly bound and well.printed Bouquet from France (Harrap. 7s. 6d.). Mr. Thorley's translations of Verlaine, Jean Richepin and Albert Samain are......

Miss Evelyn Underhill's, Devoted Readers, Amongst Whom We...

will open her new small book Concerning the Inner Life (Methuen. 2s.) with eagerness and they will not be disappointed A the contents. We hope to review the book shortly.......

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An interesting and important pamphlet has been issued by a committee of thirteen, whose names are warrant of the importance of The Facts of . .Industry (Macmillan. ls.). The......

The Church And The Truth

The Dynamics of Religion. By J. M. Robertson. (Watts and Co. 78. 6d. net.) . In Jacob Boehme's School. By Harold W. Shepheard. (Dent. 3s. 6(1. net.) THE dynamics of religion is......

Crime And Custom In Savage Society (kegan Paul. 5s.) Looks

an interesting' book; but even the vividest of tragedies among passionate savages, such as the man who married-his cousin, was accused of incest by-a rival-, •and thereupon com-......

This Week's Books

The Life of Jesus Christ, by Dr. J. Walter Harding (Bowe's, Cambridge, 3s.), is a unified gospel given in the words of the Evangelists and telling the complete story of Christ......

The Competition

The Editor offers a prize of £5 for a suggestion for a new . competition. THERE is one thing in particular on which we should like to know our readers' opinion. We have tried in......