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Finance And Trade Under Edward Iii. Edited By G. Unwin.

(Manchester University Press, and Longmans and Co. 15s. net.)— Professor Unwin has edited some valuable essays by students of the Manchester History School on various economic......

Allotments For All. By Gerald W. Butcher. (allen And Unwin.

2s. net.)—A survey of the allotment movement, which will be of special interest to those who, in Mr. Butcher's happy phrase, ' " perceive in their plots of land the tangible......

Some Books Of The Mnum Trotico In This Column Does

not necessarily preclude subsequent review] In the Scottish Historical Review for July will be found a valuable paper by Professor Firth on " Macaulay's Treatment of Scottish......

Readable Novels.—the Narrow Strait. By W. E. Norris....

Co. 68.)—A novel dealing with the psychological results of mixed English and French parentage. It is written with all Mr. Norris's well-known accomplishment.—The Mystery of the......

Fiction.

THE HUMPHRIES TOUCH.t Ma. WATSON would probably be the last person to claim a serious purpose for his story, which is carried out in a mood of extravaganza • The New Revelation.......

The June Number Of The New East, Edited In Tokio

by Mr. J. W. Robertson-Scott, gives prominence to the new Japanese Foreign Minister's message to Mr. Balfour, assuring him of Japan's " un- swerving determination " to stand by......

The Pacifist Lie. By Captain E. J. Solano. (j. Murray.

ls. 6d. net.)—Captain Solano, who enlisted as a volunteer at the outset of war and has done good service in more ways than one, puts the case for the soldiers and sailors......

A New Way Of Housekeeping. By Clementine Black. (collins....

6d. net.)--Miss Black's scheme is for federated housekeeping. Householders are to form themselves into groups—she suggests fifty as a sound figtire—each with its " domestic......

A Schoolmaster's Diary. Edited By S. P. B. Male. (grant

Richards. Gs. net.)—This book purports to be the autobiography of Patrick Traherne, a schoolmaster who was out of sympathy with his chiefs, his colleagues, and his pupils, and......

Oriental Encounters. By Marmaduke Pickthall. (collins....

sketches of Eastern life Mr. Pickthall recalls his first experiences of Syria more than twenty years ago. He says that his English friends tried vainly to discourage him from......