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The Later Correspondence of Lord John Russell (1840-1878) has been edited by Mr. G. P. Gooch (Longmans). The corres- pondence gives new information upon the statesmen and events......

A. Book Of The Moment

THE TEXTURE OF YOUTH The Madonna of the Barricades. By J. St. Loe Strachey. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.). It is one of the least kind ironies of life that the states of mind and......

Mr. Arthur Symons Has W Ri Tten Notes On Joseph Conrad, With

Some Unpublished Letters, a pamphlet published by Messrs. Myers and Co., 102 New Bond Street. And theugh Mr. Symons constructs a strange portrait of Conrad, as a man 'abnormal,......

* C . * * • , The Home University Library

has been so popular that many readers have wished to have the better-known volumes republished in a more, stately form. Messrs. Williams and Notgate have issued in a very......

A Large And Impressive Book, Science And Scientists In The

;Nineteenth Century (Sheldon Press) has been written by the 'Rev. Robert H. Murray to show that " there are just as -many preconceived notions in science as there are in......

This Week's Books

THERE have already been at least two selections from Anton Chekhov's letters published in English; birt it seems that they :are an inexhaustible mine. Miss Louis S. Friedlaiid......

On The Cover Of The Diary Of Thomas Turner (1754-1765),

edited by Florence Maris Turner (Mrs. Charles Lamb), the publishers ; Messrs. John Lane, announce that it is " one of the . most amusing and revelatory decuments of. the kind......

A New Competition

THE EDITOR OFFERS TWO PRIZES OF £10 EACH, THE FIRST FOR AN INSCRIPTION FOR A SUNDIAL IN PROSE OR VERSE, THE SECOND FOR AN EPIGRAM - ON WOMAN IN FOUR LINES OF VERSE. NONE of our......