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A . Tankard Of Ale. By Theodore Maynard. (e. Macdonald,...

there has been some excellent verse written in praise of wine and beer is an undoubted fact. All lovers of literature, therefore, whether in favour of Prohibition or of State......

General Palest, The Well-known French Military Historian,...

Anglo-French Review for January, subjects Lord 'French's account of the days preceding the battle of the Mame to a severely critical examination. He contends that Lord French's......

Work Of Reference.—the Girls' School Year-book (public...

F. W. Deane, 7s. 6d. net) deserves a word of commendation. It is the official reference-book of the Asso- ciation of Head-Mistresses, and has been revised with care for this......

The Royal Regiment Of Artillery Has Started A New Monthly

journal, The Gunner (9d. net), which deserves all success. The first number is well written and well illustrated, and contains, besides Service news, some articles of general......

Professor Bush, Of Iowa University, Has An Interesting...

American Soldiers in French Universities " in the American Educational Review for January. After the Armistice six thousand men selected from the American Army in France were......

We Have Received From Rr. D. Croal Thomson, Of 8

Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, a copy of Barbizon House, 1919: an Illustrated Record, 9f which a small edition has been printed for private circulation. It contains full......

Miss Margaret Adam Has An Instructive Paper On " The

Cause of the Highland Emigrations of 1783-1803 " in the Scottish Historical Review for January. The emigrations have been used by Scottish Radicals and by Mr. Lloyd George......

The Question Of Thrace, Greeks, Bulgars, And Turks. By J.

Saxon Mills - and M. G. Chrussachi. (Stanford. 2s. 6d. net.)— The authors of this scholarly pamphlet show that the population of Thrace is predominantly Greek by reproducing a......

The Geographical Journal For January Contains An...

to the Geography of Macedonia " by Mr. Alan G. Ogilvie, the well-known Oxford geographer, who served with the British Army at Salonika. Mr. Ogilvie points out that Mace- donia......