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Dr. Felix Oswald Recently Made An Expedition On Behalf Of

the British Museum to investigate some geological formations near Karungu, on the east coast of Lake Victoria Nyanza. The scientific results of his journey have already been......

A New Introduction To The Science Of Ethics Has Been

pub- lished by Professor Theodore de Laguna, who holds the Chair of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College (Macmillan and Co., Is. 6d. net). His treatment of the subject is in the main......

The First Collected Edition Of The English Poems Of Henry

King, D.D., has just been published by Dr. Lawrence Mason (Humphrey Milford for the Yale University Press, 68. net). It will be remembered that Henry King, whose dates are......

The Asiatic Dionysos.*

Miss Davm started her inquiries from an examination of the references in Aristophanes to the Dithyrambic school of litera- ture. The Dithyramb from Plato onwards has always been......

Some Illustrated Books.

WE do not often do more than call attention to the fact of new editions, but G. P. Waite, by G. K. Chesterton (Duckworth and Co., 3s. 6d. net), is so well worth reading that we......

Though The Followers Of Zarathushtra Could Once Be...

millions, they are now reduced to a small community of about a hundred thousand souls, and, since they have deliberately refused to permit converts to join them, their numbers......

In The Story Of Napoleon's Death-mask (john Lane, 6e. Net)

Mr. G. L. de St. M. Watson, in spite of a somewhat exuberant style, gives an exhaustive and satisfactory account of a con. troversial incident in the last chapter of Napoleon's......

Current Literature.

Tale of a Tub is not among the best of Ben Jonson's comedies, but there are some points of interest connected with it, extraneous to the play itself, which justify the care......