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Books.

COUNT HAYASHI'S SECRET MEMOIRS.* THE title of this book prepares us for some sort of irregn• larity, and the expectation is not falsified. The Japanese diplomatist and statesman......

Poetry.

"CONVALESCENCE "—RYE : MIDSUMMER, 1915. PEACE on the hill beneath the blue of June Lying the day long stretched upon the dune, Fanned by a gentle breeze, warmed by a summer sun,......

Necessitous Ladies Fund.

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The Central Association Of Volunteer Training Corps.

PRESIDENT: LORD DESBOROUGH. Hon. SECRETARY : PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. Hasp Omen: Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of this......