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My Russian And Tartish Journals. By The Dowager...

Dufferin and Ava. (John Murray. 10s. Gd. net.)—Lord Dufferin, after his return from Canada, was our Ambassador at Petrograd from 1879 to 1881, and at Constantinople from 1881 to......

Holland And Pan-germanism.•

ONE of the favourite devices of pro-Germans in neutral countries is to pretend that the blockade and the action of the Allies in Greece show us to be hypocritical in our claim......

Some Books Of The Week.

Wales in air colu:nn does not necessariti proasis su5ssison.! rams The Lord Kitchener Memorial Book. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. Gd. net.)—This interesting volume has been......

Needlecraft In The School. By Margaret Swanson, Late Of The

Glasgow School of Art. Introduction by Professor John Adams, M.A., B. Sc., LL.D., University of London. (Longmans and Co. 5s.)—The wide range of subjects which may be grouped......

Pcpys On The Restoration Stage. By Helen Mcafee. (oxford...

sity Press. 128. Gd. net.)—Under the auspices of the Elizabethan Club of Vale University, Miss McAfee has compiled a most valuable and interesting book from Pepys's Diary. All......

Readable Novels.—the Matchmakers. By J. E. Buckrose....

I's. net.)—A most humorous story dealing with life in the village of Little Pendleton. Its perusal will furnish an excellent antidote to the worries of the war.—The Background......

The Sonnets Of Shakespeare. Variorum Edition. Edited By...

Alden. (Houghton, Mifflin, and Co. 25s. net.)—Those who read Shake- rpeare's Sonnets for their intrinsic beauty should avoid this cxhau itive treatise, in which the variations......

Fiction.

HATCHWAYS.* Tnonon this is an ante-belle us novel, it is not without premonitions of the conflict, and inasmuch as one of the principal characters is a Frenchman, and a very......