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The National Institute Of Agricultural Botany, Now Fully...

its new buildings at Cambridge, has issued its second Annual Report, in which the work of the Institute is clearly described. The trial grounds for testing new cereals and......

The Influence Of The Sea On The Political History Of

Japan. By Vice-Admiral G. A. Ballard. (Murray. 18s. net.)—This interesting book begins with Kublai Khan's disastrous attempts to invade Japan in 1273-80 and with the Korean war......

Messrs. Hutchinson Have Begun The Issue Of The Story Of

the British Nation, a new serial publication which is to be completed in about forty-eight fortnightly parts (Is. 3d. net each). Professor J. E. Lloyd contributes the opening......

Ancient Tales From Many Lands. By R. M. Fleming. (bean

Brothers. 10s. 6d. net.)—As Professor Fleure says in his introduction to this fascin ting book, Miss Fleming is well known among teachers for her skill in using folk tales to......

The Quarterlies.

Dm Edinburgh Review for January contains a lucid article by Mr. Arthur W. Kiddy on " Foreign Exchanges and Human Effort," enforcing the truth that the collapse of the exchanges......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The January issue of the Antiquaries Journal. (H. Milford, 5s. net) contains Colonel Hawley's second......

A Catalogue Of English And Foreign Bookbindings Offered...

by Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (11 Grafton Street, 32s.), is an attractive and valuable contribution to the study of the binder's art, for it contains seventy excellent plates—six of......

Outlines Of Constitutional Law : With Notes On Legal...

By Dalzell Chalmers and Cyril Asquith. (Sweet and Maxwell. 12s. 6d. net.)—This compact textbook has been revised with care for a second edition, and will be found useful for......