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A Year in Russia. By Maurice Baring. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)— After ten years, Mr. Baring has revised his delightful book on the Russia through which he travelled in 1906. He has......

A Lasting Peace. By J. J. Rousseau. Translated By C.

E. Vaughan. (Constable & Co. Is. net. )—Professor Vaughan's translation of two essays by Rousseau is timely and interesting. In the first, published in 1761-82, he describes and......

Every Week One Hundred Thousand Copies Of Mighty, " A Budget

of humour from home," are sent free to our sailors and soldiers. To assist in providing funds for this excellent enterprise an enter- taining summer number of Mighty has just......

Some Books Of The Week.

Wolin iu this column dote Not stetemily retrZugle subrepitid mites.] The New East for July - contains a valuable article by Lord Bryce, who answers the question, "Why is the......

Readable Norma—mr. Teddy. By E. F. Benson. (t. Fisher Unwin.

6s.)—A pleasant and peaceful little story of life in a provincial town. The hero is a delightful person, but he was obviously a more than indifferent artist.—A Spy for Napoleon.......

Fiction.

NO MAN'S LAND.* " S.srama " is among the very best of the writers who have tried to make people at home understand how our men in the trenches live and fight—and die. The war......

The Polish Review For July (allen And Unwin, Is. Net)

contains an interesting article on " Present Conditions in Poland," which shows that the Germans are accentuating their tactless brutality towards the Poles now that Poland and......

The Cultivation Of Allotments. By Percy Elford And Samuel...

(Clarendon Press. 8d. net.)—This practical little book, written by two experts, may be warmly commended to the notice of the amateur allotment-holders who have done well this......

Worms Or Rerearnmir-crockford's Clerical Directory For...

and Queen, NM.), though it appears later than usual in the year, is as admirable as ever in its fulness and accuracy. The editor in his Preface deals at some length with the......