An Outline History Of China. By Dr. H. H. Gowen
and J. W. Hall. (Appleton. 15s.)—Histories of China available' in the past have been too often technical studies or speciat pleas. This one is scholarly and interesting, and in......
The Vanished Empire. By Putnam Weale. (mad- Millan....
Weale sometimes appears to have an axe to grind, but it is generally a different one in each book. In The Fight for the Republic in China (1918) he exposes the corruption of the......
Net.)---as A Concise Narrative Of The Greatest /l And...
in modern history, this excellent book is to be 'warnilY commended. It is based on long and thorough studies of the evidence which French experts have amassed, it is on the......
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A HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. By M. Rostovtzeff. Translated from the Russian by J. J. Duff. Vol. I. The Orient and Greece. (Clarendon Press. 21s. net.)— Professor Rostovtzeff......
Samuel Pepys's Naval Minutes. Edited By J. R. Tanner. (navy
Records Society. W. Clowes & Son. 25s. 6d.)-- 7 Dr. Tanner, our leading authority on Pepys, and the Navy Records Society are much to be commended for printing in full, for the......
The Physiology Of The Continuity Of Life. By D. Noel
Paton. (Macmillan. 12s. net.)—Dr. Paton' deals with subjects of much scientific controversy— the inheritance of acquired characteristics, for example... His intention is to......
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THE WRITING OF HISTORY. By the Hon. Sir John. Fortescue. (Williams and Norgate. 2s. 6d. net.)—The learned historian of the British Army, whose many volumes are.. as readable as......
A Book Of Gallant Vagabonds. By Henry Beston. (t. Werner
Laurie. 10s. 6d. net.)—What is Arthur, Rimbaud doing here ? Perhaps he is thrown in as a make- • weight ; " gallant vagabond " is hardly an appropriate term to • use of the......
Two 'quarterlies An Outstanding Article In The October...
one from Professor Alden, in which he discusses recent Swedish tendencies in theology. Christianity, he says, is to be regarded as dynamic, not static. Life is viewed by it as......
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