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The Shakespeare Symphony. By Harold Bayley. (chapman And...

6d. net.)—This "Introduction to the Ethics of the Elizabethan Drama" is an elaborate argument in support of a thesis which has a somewhat paradoxical look. Mr. Bayley allows......

In The Series Of "the Antiquary's Books" (methuen And Co.,

7s. 6d. net) we have English Seals, by J. Harvey Bloom, M.A. Mr. Bloom gives an introductory chapter in which something is said about ancient seals, scarabs, and others,......

We Have Received Two Volumes (vii. And Viii.) Of The

"Harvard Oriental Series," Edited, with the Co-operation of various Scholars, by Charles Rockwell Lannan (Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 20s. 7d. net). These two volumes......

New Editions. — Lectures On The Influence Of Poetry And...

By F. W. Robertson. (R. H. Allenson. 2s. 6d.)—These lectures were delivered before the members of a Mechanics' Institution—virtually the audience was of the middle class—in......

The Birthday Book Of The Blessed Dead. By Katharine Tynan.

(Hodder and Stoughton. 6s. net.)—Mrs. Katharine Tynan Hinkson has collected here, and collected, we may say, with great care and taste, quotations from a very wide circle of......