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Alaska : An Empire In The Making. By John L.

Underwood. (T. Fisher Unwie. 7s. 6d. net.)—Most people who read Mr. Underwood's book will do so with a sense of growing surprise, for to most of us the country he describes is......

Oil Fuel. By Professor Vivian B. Lewes. (collins's Clear...

Press. Is. net.)—In this new volume of the "Nation's Library " Professor Lewes, after dealing coats* with the supply, value, and means of utilization of a fuel? entAtasines the......

A Grammar Of The Sindebele Dialect Of Zulu. By The

Rev J. O'Neil, S.J. (Simpkin, Marshall and Co. 7e. 6d. net.)— Father O'Neil has followed up his Sindebele phrase-book and vocabulary with a careful and well-arranged grammar of......

The Federal Systems Of The United States And The British

Empire. By Arthur P. Poley, B.A. (Sir Isaac Pitman and -Sons. 12s. 6d. net.)--This book, which traces the history and compares the development of the Constitutions of the United......

The Place - Names Of &folk. By The Late Rev. W. W.

Skeat. (G. Bell and sons. Ss. net.)--This interesting volume forme the eleventh ofa series-initiated by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, and is published in the condition in......

The Samson Saga, And Its Place In Comparative

By A. Smythe Palmer, D.D. (Isaac Pitman and Sons. 5s. net.)—Dr. Palmer's object is to show that the Scriptural story of Samson is in part composed of a much more ancient......