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Persian Historical Texts.

The Lubcibu '1 Allxib (Second Part) of Muhammad 'Awfi. Edited by Edward G. Browne. "Persian Historical Texts," Vol. II. (Luzac and Co.)--English students of Oriental languages......

Babies: Its Place Amongst Germ - Diseases, And Its Origin...

Animal Kingdom. By David Sime, M.D. (Cambridge University Press. 10s. 6d. net.)—Whilst somewhat too technical for lengthy review in the columns of a lay paper, Dr. Sime's......

The Taskmaster. By Alphonse Courlander. (duckworth And...

unredeemed brutality and sordid realism it would be difficult to find the equal of this book. The reader will grant that the story is to a certain extent "powerful " ; but the......

Things As They Are. By Amy Wilson-carmichael. (morgan And...

6s.)—Mr. Eugene Stock, whose opinion should go for much, speaks very highly of this book. Its literary merits soon show themselves ; of its value as "an account of mission work......

The Despoilers. By Edmund Mitchell. (cassell And Co. 6s.)...

reader of this "story of a missing will and of the search for it" will have no reason to complain. In the first chapter a mysterious stranger with a mysterious bag dies in an......

Amateur Science.

The boy and the grown man who are fond of handling tools and " making things" in their leisure time—a taste which would be commoner than it is if it were adequately......

The Filigree Ball. By Anna K. Green. (t. Fisher 17nwin.

6s.) — Boom Five. By Hamilton Drummond. (Ward, Lock, and Co. 6s.)—Here are two competitors for the favour of a public that likes a highly spiced meal. Is there not something......