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Manual Of Photography. By D. Grant. (murray And Evenden. Ls.

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Flight Without Formulae. By Commandant Duch&e. Translated...

Ledeboer. (Longmans and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—This discussion of the mechanics of the aeroplane, by a French military engineer, is written in the simplest possible language, without......

Sharps, Flats, Gamblers, And Racehorses. By A. Dick...

Richards. 12s. 6d. net.)—This amusing autobiography of a racing tipster may be read with more profit than his tips seem to have brought to those who followed them—though he does......

Religious Confessions And Confessants. By Anna R. Burr....

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The Financial System Of The United Kingdom. By Henry Higgs.

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Described In This Pleasant Book—six From Homer, Ten From The

Attic tragedy, and Dido from Virgil. It is curious to note that in none of the Greek stories "is the love which leads to marriage dealt with explicitly."......

Latin Songs, With Music. Edited By Calvin S. Brown. (g.

P. Putnam's Sons. 9s. net.)—Mr. Brown has made an excellent collection of Latin songs, from Catalina to the Carmen Etonense, and has provided them with more or less appropriate......

Welsh Land. (hodder And Stoughton. Ls.net.)—this First...

report of the Sub-Committee appointed by the Welsh Parliamentary Party to inquire into agrarian con- ditions in Wales deals with the rural side of the problem. Sir Alfred Mond......

How To Dress Salmon-flies. By T. E. Pryce-tannatt. (a. And

C. Black. 7s. 6d. net.)—" A £5 note judiciously laid out" will furnish a workman-like outfit of implements and materials for the fly-dresser. This art cannot be learnt from......

Canvas And Camaraderie. By P. Merriman And H. R. H.

Coney. (Harrison and Sons. 6d. net.)—The writers' aim is to "revive a few pleasant memories of past camps, and send along, directly or indirectly, some new members to the......

The Recruiting Officer And The Beaux' Stratagem. By...

(D. C. Heath and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—In this pretty little edition we are glad to meet again the Lichfield Boniface whose ale was "smooth as oil, sweet as milk, clear as amber,......

The Blessed Company. By Constance Arbuthnot. (wells...

Co. ls. net.)—These verses were written under the inspiration of an austere and distinguished Muse. They breathe the spirit of sincere devotion, and are peculiarly welcome in a......

The Shileari. By C. H. B. Grant. (research Publishing Co.

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Methuen's Annual. Edited By E. V. Lucas. (methuen And Co.

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Gnomic Poetry In Anglo-saxon. Edited By Blanche C....

Milford. 6s. 6d. net.)—This monograph, which contains 12 pages of text and 159 of introduction, notes, and glossary, deals with the Exeter and Cotton gnomes. It is well up to......

The Press And Poetry Of Modern Persia. By E. G.

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The Americans In The Philippines. By James A. Le Roy.

2 vols. (Houghton Mifflin Company. 42s. net.)—Mr. Le Roy's death at the early age of thirty-three has deprived the world of a writer who might have ranked with Prescott, Motley,......

Croquet. By Lord Tollemache. (stanley Paul And Co. Los. 6d.

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The Story Of Mr. Chamberlain's Life. By A. Mackintosh....

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