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Other Novels.—robinetto. By Beatrice Sheepshanks. (selwyn...

Od. net.) Robinetta is a first novel and has all the-faults 'of-youth and inexperience. The theme is not original,- and the strong-man - hero behaves with extra- ordinary......

The Home Of An Eastern Clan. By Mrs. Leslie Milne.

(Clarendon Press. 16s.) For some years Mrs. Leslie Milne made her home among the Palaungs of the Shan States with a view to studying their habits and customs. She learned their......

The Depths Of The Universe. By George Ellery Hale....

7s. 6d. net.) Though these chapters were written for a periodical Press, there is no pseudo-science about them. They form a little book which seriously attempts to survey our......

Finance-public & Private.

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] RISE IN STERLING., [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The influences operating upon markets during the week have been of a mixed character. On the one......

Shorter Notices.

THE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF SCOTLAND TO THE REFORMATION. By James Mackinnon, assisted by J. A. R. Mackinnon. (Longmans. 16s. net.) Professor Mackinnon has done a valuable......