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The Arabic Numerals Make Their First Appearance In Europe In

manuscripts of the tenth century. Mr. G. F. Hill treats the queatiou of their subsequent changes of form in a study upon The Development of Arabi. Numerals in Europe Ex- hibited......

Brunet's Tower. By Eden Phillpotte. (william Heinemann....

long novel was a disappointment to us, for he did not seem at his ease away from Dartmoor; but the results of his experiment are now evident. He has come back to his familiar......

We Have Been Sent The Eighth Volume Of The New

series of the .Register of Magdalen College, Oxford, by William Dann Macray (Humphrey Milford, 10s. 6d. net). The volume contains an index of Fellows of the College, and an......

There Is No Need To Emphasize The Importance Of Palaeo-

graphy as an essential preliminary to the investigation of documentary historical sources. Mr. Hilary Jenkinson's Palaeography and the Practical Study of Court Hand (Cam- bridge......

From The Old South-sea House, Edited By A. W. Runny

(Smith, Elder, and Co., 7s. 6d. net), is a collection of letters written in the last yearn of the eighteenth century by Thomas Baloney, a clerk in that Ellen institution, to his......

Readable Novels.—bambi. By Marjorie Benton Cooke....

of Mies Cooke's dialogue is strained and affected, but much is clever: we feel that she is capable of more serious work.—Where There Are Women. By Marguerite and Armiger......

The Great Increase In The Coat Of Living In Canada

is the subject of a short study called The New Slavery, by Mr. H. Percy Scott (T. Fisher Unwin, 814. 6d. net). Mr. Scott believes that the evil is caused by the growth of......

Some Books Of The Vnunc.

(P.O.. in Ws columo Om not womanly preclude wslargasatrmiso.) Sir Charles Lucas has published a moat valuable series of six lectures upon The British Empire (Macmillan and Co.,......

New Editions. —mr. A. W. Bence Has Brought Out A Second

edition of The Greek Philosophers (Smith, Elder, and Co., 18e. net), which gives a survey of thought from Thalee to Prod.,. Very considerable alterations and additions have been......

The Great Prehistoric City Of Tiahnanaca, Of Which The Ruins

lie near the @bores of Lake Titicaca, over twelve thousand feet high upon the plateau of the Andes, provides one of the most romantic and mysterious problems of archaeology. Mr.......

New And Forthcoming Publications.

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