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The Rustic Note.

Great Meddow. By Helen Hamilton. (Blackwell. 4s. 6d.) THIS pleasant little book is somewhat in Mrs. Gaskell's vein of gentle irony. The author writes in the first person plural,......

Shorter Notices.

CHRISTIANITY AND THE RACE PROBLEM. By J. H. Oldham, M.A. (Student Christian Movement. 7s. 6d.) Kipling's phrase,. " The White Man's Burden," has been parodied by the......

This Is The Third Volume Of Mr. Fayle's Part In

The History of the Great War which appears by direction of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Those who read the first volumes followed the account of the agonies of the......

Egypt And The Army.

Egypt and the Army. By Lieut.-dol. P. 0. ELGOOD: C.M.G. (0iford Uniersity Press. 16s. iiet.) COLONEL ELGOOD, whose large experience in the country has rendered him thoroughly......

The Victoria History Of The County Of Berk- Shire. Edited

by William Page and the Rev. P. H. Ditch- field, assisted by J. H. Cope. Vol. III. (St. Catherine Press. 63s. net.) That magnificent enterprise, the Victoria County History, has......