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Pestalozzi's Activities As An Educator, And Yet There Is No

reason to suppose that there has been misrepresentation. In Mr. /Colman's judgment he was "one of the world's greatest benefactors," and yet, as one who knew him well observed,......

International Problems And Hague Conferences. By T. S....

(J. M. Dent and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Lawrence gives his first three chapters to an account of the " Society of Nations " as it is in theory and as it has been in fact. Our......

Reensets Novels.—rose Campion's Platonic. By Adam...

6s.)—A story of a lonely woman's life in London.—The Song of Hyacinth. By John Oxenhain. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—A. collection of short stories of varying merit. "The One who......

Novels.

THE WILD GEESE.* A SPECIAL interest attaches to this novel owing to the announcement that Mr. Stanley Weyman has irrevocably decided to abandon a career which he has pursued for......

The Biugular Republic. By W. H. Koebel. (francis...

author has imagined a Republic in South America - which is entirely owned and administered by its President out of his own private fortune. Such a method of government may......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading us notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Political Socialism : a Remonstrance. Edited by Mark H. Judge. (P. S.......

Hardy-on-the-hill. By M. E. Francis (mrs. F. Blundell)....

Co. 6s.)—Mrs. Blundell has arranged for her new story a scene which is altogether suited to her manner. It lies in Dorsetshire, we gather, not because there are any obvious......