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Mr. Ward's Freemasonry And The Ancient Gods (simpkin,...

Edition) is an esoteric work which will be resorted to by masons of high degree and correspondingly keen enthusiasm. To establish his theory that Masonry roots deep into......

Can Anything More Be Said Of Mr. Albert Bret:knock's Byron

(Palmer, 12s. 6d.) than that it is eminently fitted to adorn a drawing-room table ? " Byron may have had blemishes in his character," but parts of him were excellent, and parts......

The Second And Final Volume Of Further Dialogues Of The

Buddha, translated by Lord Chalmers (Oxford University Press, 12s. 6d.) has more " human interest " than the former had. But both books are of great and particular importance to......

This Week's Books

" STORY ? God bless you, I have none to tell, Sir," pleaded the Needy Knifegrinder, and his predicament is much the same as that of Mr. Pelham Edgar in presenting to us Henry......

Since Mr. Thompson-seton First Began To Anthropomorph "...

domestic animals everybody has been doing it Mr. Allan Dunn in Gone Wild (Duckworth, 8s. 6d.) has done it quite successfully for those who like this kind of thing : the story is......

Mr. T. C. Bridges In Florida To Fleet Street (hutchinson,

2Is.) has dipped the pen of liveliness in the ink of wanderlust. This is a rattling, breezy miscellany of knockabout life and orange-growing in Florida ; of sport—especially......

A New Competition

Ova next competition is a very simple one and will be judged strictly by popular vote. We ask our readers to give us the names of the ten most popular characters in fiction of......

An Ideal Friend

WE feel our readers will be interested in an example of an entry for the "Ideal Friend" Competition of a more personal nature than those already published. THE CHARACTER OF AN......