1 MAY 1909, page 23

Quarterly Statement Of The Palestine Exploration Fund :...

Conduit Street, W. 2s. 6d.)—The Gazer excavations in tho lad season have been unsatisfactory, very little having been found, while the work was greatly hindered by bed weather.......

Journal Of The Society Of Comparative Legislation :...

(John Murray. Os. not.)—Thore are many valuable and interesting papers in this number, the latest publication of a Society which sets before itself a most desirable object. Tho......

Auction Bridge. By Captain Browning. (g. Routledgo And...

do not think that auction bridge is an improve- ment on the ordinary game. It may be assumed that the excellence of a game lies in the blond of chance and skill. Chess is all......

The Quarterlies.

"Ir there were a general election to-morrow," sap; the writer of "The Political Scene" in the Edinburgh Review, " over a largo extent of the scene of administration it would bo......

High Lwence. By Frederic W. Tompson. (macmillan And Co. Is.

net.)—We have always maintained that the State ought to make as much money as it can out of the sale of the liquor- trade monopoly. But the price it demands for the privilege w......

Tho Law Concerning Preparatory And Secondary Schools. By...

H. Maclean. (Jordan and Sons. 15s. net.)—" There is no legal obligation on a parent," writes the author in his intro- ductory chapter, "to educate his child apart from the......

Some Books Of Ti-ie Week.

mud.,. this heading vs ?totted such Books of Ms weak as haue not book -reserved for review in other fornts.] Reunion and lntercommunion. By H. Hensley Hanson, D.D. , (Hugh Roes.......

A Key To Life's Mystery. By W. B. Norris. (simpkin,

Marshall, and Co. 2s. Gd. net.)—The writer of the article mentioning this little book in our issue of last week was not aware that a second and revised edition had just......