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The Coastal Fishery Of The Eastern Seaboard Of Scotland Is

in a bad way—possibly in danger of disappearing altogether. But whatever its fate, its memory will be imperishably preserved by Mr. Peter F. Anson's Fishing Boats and Fisher......

The Mutiny And The World War Are The Main Episodes

of the stirring pages of King George's Own Central India Horse, by Major-General W. A. Watson (Blackwood, 21s.). The author joined the regiment in 1882, and is now its honorary......

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Some Books Of The Week Fr Is A Long Time

since we have read so fascinating a book as Tent Folk of the Far North,: by_ Ester Blenda Nordstrom (Jenkins, 12s. 6d.), and let us say at once that the translation by Miss Gee......

That Great Surgeon, Sir John Bland-sutton, Looking Back...

seventy-five years of a well spent life, has made The Story of a Surgeon (Methuen, 12s. 6d.) interesting alike to the practitioner and the layman. His father was a naturalist......

Mrs. Millin Is Not At Her Best Throughout Men On

a Voyage (Constable, Os : ).. It consists, apparently, of jottings from - a notebook arranged under separate headings. They are mostly on abstract subjects, and it is only where......

Mr. Edwin Muller, Jr., In The Preface To His Book,

They Climbed the Alps (Cape, 10s. 6d.), writes : " Apparently one can have an ardent liking for golf, gin and bitters, the music of Stravinsky, the works of Mencken or the ways......

The Competition

Tax Editor offers a prize Of five guineas :for the competitor whose selection of the five best brains in Great Britain most nearly accords with the majority verdict. The......