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Dukes And Poets In Ferrara. By Edmund G. Gardner, M.a.

(A. Constable and Co. 18s. net.)—In the pages of this book, the outcome, it is evident, of unsparing labour—the bibliography covers something like eight pages—we have a somewhat......

Light And Water. By Sir Montagu Pollock. (g. Bell And

Sons. 10s. 6d. net.)—Sir Montagu Pollock has given us a book which is clearly the outcome of many years of loving study of natural beauty. It is an excellent supplement to the......

A Historical Geography Of The British Empire. By Hereford B.

George. (Methuen and Co. 3s. 6d.)—The "Introductory Part" of this book is as temperate and closely reasoned a defence of Imperial action as could be desired. That ambition and......

[under This Heading We Notice Such Books Of The Week

as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Story of the Delhi Coronation Durban By Stephen Wheeler. (John Murray. 42s. net.)—The eighteen months spent on the......

C Urrent Literat Ure.

MR. ST. JOHN LUCAS'S POEMS. Poems. By St. John Lucas. (A. Constable and Co. 5s. net.) —Mr. Lucas overlays his thought, of which he has at least a more than passable supply, with......

Criticises Persons, Policy, And Strategy Pretty Freely....

he brings against the Army,—that it is paralysed by jealousy. Why, he asks in particular, did De Wet escape so often? Lord Methuen might have caught him, if he had been backed......