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The Rhodian Sea Law. Edited By Walter Ashburner. (the...

Press. 18s. net.)—This book deals with a compilation which apparently dates from some time between 600 and 800 A.D. It is not an authoritative statement of law, for much of it......

Little Devil Doubt. By Oliver Onions. (john Murray....

proves the versatility of his talent in this novel by embark- ing on a book which makes as complete a contrast as it is possible to imagine to his former novel "Drakestone," or......

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[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not bun reserved for review in other forms.] The History of Pembrokeshire. By the Rev. James Phillips. (Elliot......

Riadable Novell—where Every Prospect Pleases. By Edmund...

Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—A distinctly humorous, if somewhat undistinguished, story of English life, with a change of scene to Ceylon.—A Reformer by Proxy. By John Parkinson.......

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AVENGING CHILDREN.* MRS. MANN'S new romance is once more laid in East Anglia —the action passes mainly in Norwich—but it is mid- Victorian East Anglia, the date being fixed by......