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Professor James T. Young's Monograph Upon The New...

and its Work (Macmillan and Co.. 10s. net) is not merely an account of the structure and functions of the Government. It deals also in some detail with some of the actual......

The Remarkable Sculptures Of Ivan Meshtrovich Now Being...

South Kensington have taught us to understand something of the Southern Slav feelings and ideals. Of the facts of Serbian history we are still for the most part ignorant. We may......

Fiction.

THE FREELANDS.• IN his new novel Mr. Galsworthy adheres to the method successfully followed by him in other works of illustrating social changes and the evolution of publio......

The Late Captain Brinkley's History Of Japan Is Generally...

as the standard work upon the subject in English. Its great length, however, prevents it from being very widely read, and it is consequently a matter for satisfaction that the......

The Lone Wolf. By Louis Joseph Vance. (eveleigh Nash....

many novels of crime have appeared during the last few months that we are inclined to think that the publication of detective stories would be a profitable subject for fresh......

Readable Novels.—a Mind Awakened. By Henry Bordeaux....

Davis. (J. M. Dent and Sons. 6s.)—An interesting analysis of the characters of a man and a woman, seen as the parties in a divorce case ; the translation is admirable.—It's an......

Jafery. By William J. Locke. (john Lane. 6s.)—mr Locke At

one point in his novel admits that he would have liked to make Barbara Freeth the heroine of the story ; we are, on the whole, sorry that he did not follow out his inclination,......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column don not neemarilv plaid. subsequent rsvinr.] Nothing is more difficult than to persuade an apparently well-educated foreigner that the English are good at......