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She2ley And Calderon. By Salvador De Madariaga....

is written in English by a Spaniard... The lan- guage and style are excellent, It is a considerable achievement. The title essay does not present any startling new aspect of!......

Under The Turk , In Constantinople. By G. F. Abbott. (mac-

millan. 18s. net.)—Mr. Abbott has written an entertaining book about Sir John Finch's embassy to Constantinople in the years 1674-1681, when the Ottoman power was still great to......

We Have Received From The London General Omnibuscompany...

little pamphlets by Mr. Charles White on The Pilgrims' Way, Dorking, and Hospitals and Almshouses of London. They may be had free on application to the Company at• Electric......

The Council Of The National Institute Of. Agricultural...

was founded early in 1919, has issued its first &Toil. The headquarters building at Cambridge is under construction. The Mem farm at St Ives is to be used for raising good......

In Deeds Of A Creat Railway (murray, 15s. Net) Mr.

G. R. S. Darroch records " the enterprise and achievements of the London and North-Western Railway Company during the Great War "—or, as Mr. L. J. Maxse more briefly puts it in......

Dostoevsky And His Creations. By Janko Lavrin. (coffins....

author treats Dostoevsky as a psychologist and pathologist rather than as an artist, and his theories of him as such are convincing.......

Four _mystery Plays. By R. Steiner. (putnam. 2 Vols. 1534—it

is difficult to get any clear idea of these four theo- sophical dramas of the soul through reading them in translation, for it states in the preface that they were written•......

Aspects Of Literature. By J. Middleton Murry. (collins....

of essays previously published elsewhere. Mr. Usury has an interesting theory of literary criticism, and he writes sympathetically of various authors. His judgment of Ronsard is......

Lady Gregory Has Collected Two Volumes Of The Visions And

Beliefs in the West of Ireland (Putnam, 2 vole., 22s. 6d. net), to which Mr. Yeats has contributed an essay and notes. The stories are told with admirable simplicity and lack of......

Coal. By J. H. Ronaidson. (murray. 6s. Net.)—this Is One

of the Imperial Institute's monographs on mineral resources, with special reference to the British Empire. It is an instructive oompilation from a large number of scattered......

The. Roll Of Honour Of Carton House Printing Office, Dundee.

By John D. Mathew and James Mathew. (Dundee: James P. Mathew.)—This book illustrates the spirit in which Great Britain's manhood faced the war provoked. by Germany. It records......

Essays On Books. By A. Clutton-brook. (methuen. Os. Net.)...

Clutton-Brock is always sound if not always- inspired, and his writings bring pleasure to many. In this volume he lays oblations at the feet of various Olympians. He is inter-......

Modern. Drama In Europe. By M. Storm Jameson. (collins. 10s.

6d.)—A comprehensive study of European.dramatists since Ibsen. The author is unfair to symbolists like Maeterlinck, Verhaeren, and Yeats, whose work he does not like, and......

Pater. They Are In Parts Obscure, But The Author Appears

to have imagination and a good vocabulary. " Red Lion Square " ia the best, reproducing admirably the romance of a wet night in that curious neighbourhood.......