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Pharisaism. By E. Travers Herford. (williams And Norgate.

net.)—Mr. B. Travers Herford has set to work to whitewash the Pharisees, whose literature he has he says, been "exploring" for the past thirty years. In his first chapter he......

A Practical Guide To The Modern Orchestra. By James Lyon.

(maamilian and Co. is. net.)—It has been the endeavour of the anther of this boOk to provide in "pocket" form the most im- portant facts as to compass and effective use of each......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under This leading we notice such Ecoks of the week as bare not been yenned for review in other forms.1 Insurance versus Poverty. By L. G. Chiozza Money, M.P. (Methuen and Co.......

Readabial Novzns.—the Oakum Pickers. By L. S. Gibson....

Co. 6s.)—A novel dealing with life in London, chiefly concerned with the very unfortunate love affairs of the two heroines. The men of the story are quite remarkably......

An Englishman: The Romance Of A Shop. By Mary L.

rendered. New edition revised. (Mills and Boon. 6s.)—Messrs. Mills and Boon are making the experiment of republishing this novel, which appeared in 1899, in the belief that it......

Canada To-day, 1912. --(stanley Paul. Is. Net.)—an...

Canada is offered in this volume, which contains plenty of maps and photographs, as well as a large quantity of statistical information.......

The British Museum Beading - Room. By R. A. Peddie....

Co.)—Who cannot sympathize with the sensation of help.. lessness with which a reader first passes through the glass doors into the great reading-room at the British Museum ? The......

To - Day. By Percy White. (constable And Co. 6s.)—mr....

new novel is a delicately conceived satire. It is told in the first person, and it will be some little time before the reader discovers what a despicable figure the William Orr,......