19 NOVEMBER 1921, page 25

A Manual Of The Dutch Languor. By B. W. Downs

and H. Latimer Jackson. (Cambridge University Press. 6s. net.) —This is an admirable introduction to a language which should be better known in England for the sake of the fine......

The Rural Industries Round Oxford. By K. S. Broods....

Press. 7s. 6d. net.)—On behalf of the Oxford Institute for Research into Agricultural Economics, Miss Woods made last year a thorough inquiry into the small rural industries in......

The Crescent In North-west China. By G. Findlay Andrew....

for " - he China Inland Mission. 3s. 6d. net.)—This is a good and concise account of the Moslems of Arab, Turk and Mongol extraction in the province of Kansu, where the author......

Pearl. Edited By Sir Israel Gollancz, Litt.d., F.b.a....

Windus. 7s. Od. net.)—Perle, the fourteenth-century elegy, receives a most appropriate setting in the Mediaeval Library indeed, it could have no better form than as a small "......

Stories For Boys.

WE have come to look for a new book by Sir Henry Newbolt at this season every year. In The Book of the Grenrilles (Long- mans, 7s. Gd. net) he relates with ease and precision......

Some Books Of The Week.

(Notice in this column doss not necessarily preclude subsequent maw.] Professor J. Arthur Thomson is editing a new serial publica- tion entitled The Outline of Science, the......

The Third And Fourth Volumes Of The New World Of

To-Day, by A. R. Hope Moncrieff (Gresham Publishing Cd., 15s. net each), are devoted respectively to North and Central America, and to South America. The photographic......

The British Year Book Of International Law, 1921-22. (h....

and Hodder & Stoughton. 168. net.)—This is the second yearly issue of a publication which affords international lawyers the opportunity of discussing current problems. It is now......