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Among French Inns. By Charles Gibson. (hodder And...

net.)—Mr. Gibson conducts a company of travellers over certain regions of Normandy. The travellers, we are given to understand, are types, not persons; the inns are real, though......

In The Series Of " Handbooks Of Practical Gardening," Edited

by Harry Roberts (John Lane), we have The Book of Rarer Vigetables, by GeorgeWythes and Harry Roberts (2s. net). Mr. Roberts explains that the word "rare" is not used in the "......

The Garden City. (simpkin, Marshall, And Co. Ld.)—the May...

of The Garden City, the official organ of the Garden City Aesociation, contains a very interesting article entitled "Is the Cheap Cottage a Myth ? " in which a series of......

New Editions.—rural England. By H. Rider Haggard. 2 Vols....

and Co. 12s. net.)—Mr. Rider Haggard writes for this new edition a highly interesting preface. He is discouraged, it is evident, by the failure of his efforts to attract the......

Porcelain Of All Countries. By R. L. Hobson, B.a. (a.

Constable and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Hobson begins with a chapter which he entitles "Technical and Historical," and proceeds to deal in turn with Chinese, Japanese, and European......

The Royal Blue Book : Court And Parliamentary Guide....

Directories. 5s.)—This is the May edition of a book so well known and appreciated that there is little need to do more than chronicle its appearance. Private residents in the......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such _Books of the week as have not teen reserved for review in other forms.] Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century. By George Paston.......