22 DECEMBER 1906, page 27

In The "told To The Children" Series (t. C. And

E. C. Jack, ls. 6d. net) we have Stories from the Odyssey, by Jeanie Lang. This is sufficiently well done; but Miss Lang cannot have found in the Iliad that of the heroes who......

Political Caricatures. By Sir F. Carruthers Gould. (e....

F. C. G." needs no commendation. Keen, vigorous, good- humoured, with the rarest possible exceptions, he is all that a political caricaturist should be. Political, of course, ho......

The "daily Mail" Year - Book. Seventh Year Of Issue....

Percy L. Parker. (Asso ciated Press. 6c1. net.)—This " Hand- book to All the Questions of the Year" is a most handy and useful little volume. One question, noted elsewhere, is......

Time And Clocks. By H. H. Cunynghame, M.a. (a. Constable

and Co. 6s. net.)—Mr. Cunynghame, after discussing the subject of time generally, proceeds to describe the sun-dial, the water- clock (with a notice of the complication caused......

Lodge's Peerage. (kelly's Directories. 21s. Net.)—"...

understood, comprehends Baronetage and Knightage. " Lodge," now appearing for the seventy-seventh time, is so well known a book of reference that it is needless to praise it.......