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Mr. Wortham Suggests, With Some Plausibility, That The...

Spanish girls of the sixteenth century were so ready to enter convents was because there was greater emancipation in the religious than in the married life. He draws a memorable......

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A New Competition

LIFE'S LITTLE MISERIES. THAT we like to read of other people's sufferings is a common- place. That we like it all the more when the sufferers are ordinary men like ourselves,......

A Reasoned Defence Of Australia's Protection Policy Is...

an instructive little pamphlet by Mr. Skene Smith, of the London School of Economics, entitled The Structure and Working of the Australian Tariff (P. S. King, 2s. 6d.). He......

Much Depends On The Way Mr. Hugh Marshall Hole's Lobengula

(Allan, 10s. 6d.) is approached. - You may look on it as a romance, in which light it will be enjoyed as such, and the reader will appreciate the local colour which the author,......

Some Books Of The Week I X Thirty Years In The

Jungle (Lane, 18s.), Mr. Hyatt Verrill has produced a travel-book of very exceptional interest : it is lively in style, introduces us to parts of the New World that have been......

Some Years Ago An American Woman H • Istorian Found In

the Spanish and Mexican archives documents throwing new light on Drake. Now Miss I. A. Wright, working in the Archives of the Indies at Seville, has discovered papers relating......

A Worthy Man Is Worthily Commemorated In The Memoir Of

Francis James Chavasse, Bishop of Liverpool by his former chaplain, Canon J. B. Lancelot (Oxford, Blackwell, 10s. 6d.). Dr. Chavasse did a great work as head of Wycliffe Hall,......