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The Plantagenet Roll Of The Blood Royal : The Duchess

of Exeter Volume. By the Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. 84s. net.)—Previous volumes have given us the descendants of Edward IV. and of George Duke of......

Quarterly Statement Of The Palestine Exploration Fund:...

Conduit Street. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. P. G. Baldensperger's "Immovable East" and Mr. W. E. Jennings-Bramley's "Bedouin of the Sinaitic Peninsula" are continuations of highly interesting......

The Plants Of The Bible.

. The Plants of the Bible. By the Rev. Professor G. Henslow. (Masters and Co. Os. net.)—It is really surprising to see how the 'subject seems to develop and widen out when it is......

Early Chinese History. By Herbert J. Allen. (s.p.c.k....

has reached the Chinese classics, which, indeed, have always presented a difficulty to the inquirer. Mr. Allen, who has studied the subject on the spot—he is a retired member of......

The Hampstead Annual, 1907. Edited By Greville H....

Sydney C. Mayle. (S. C. Mayle.)—The place of honour in this year's volume is occupied by Miss Apbra Wilson's recollections of Dr. Richard Garnett, one of the many men of......

Famous Beauties Of Two Reigns. By Mary Craven. (eveleigh...

Ms. net.)—It is quite safe to recommend an inspection of the twenty illustrations in this volume. They are all excellent reproductions by the photogravure process of famous......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this bending see notice such Books of the week so have sot been reserved ler revise in other forms.] Memorials of Old Shropshire. Edited by Thomas Auden, M.A. (Bemrose......