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An Artist's Letters From Japan. By John La Farge. (fisher

Unwin.)—This is an exceedingly interesting book, for it is an appreciation of Japan and the Japanese made with insight and dis- cretion. It deals specially fully with Japanese......

Sermons.—sermons Preached On Special Occasions. By H. P....

(Longmans and Co.)—Happily it is not necessary to attempt an appreciation of Dr. Liddon as a preacher. In this volume we have sixteen sermons preached at intervals which ex-......

The Tennyson Memoir. By A. Patchett Martin. " Vectis "

Literary Supplement. (Silsbury Brothers, Shanklin.)—The "Life of Tennyson" has, of course, evoked a long series of articles and appreciations both of the book and of its......

Richard Lewis Nettleship.*

IT is to the earlier and shorter portion of these volumes that the general reader will turn with the greater interest and curiosity. To the University students to whom the......

Cassell's Family Doctor. (cassell And Co.)—a Useful Work...

on the usual pattern of a medical dictionary, but as this book is intended for use in families, many subjects which are usually treated in purely medical works are omitted. The......

Current Literature.

Poetical Greetings from the Far East. (Hasegowa, Tokyo ; and Sampson Low and Co.)—These Japanese poems are translated into English from the German version of Dr. Karl Florenz by......

War, Famine, And Our Food-supply. By R. B. Marston. (sampson

Low, Marston, and Co.)—Mr. Marston marshalls here a number of formidable facts. We do not grow a quarter of our food. How are we to make sure that the supply shall not be so......