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The City Of Auckland, New Zealand, 1840-1920. By John Barr.

(Whitcombe and Tombs).—Mr. Barr, who is the chief librarian of Auckland, has written a careful account of the foundation and development of the city, with much local detail. The......

The Fiscal And Diplomatic Freedom Of The British Oversee...

By Edward Porritt (Clarendon Press. 12s. 6d. net).—This substantial work is a careful and accurate account of the successive stages by which, during two generations before the......

History Of Holland. By George Edmundson. (cambridge...

6d. net.)—This learned and die- passionate history of Holland from the Burgundian domination down to our own times was much needed. Mr. Edmundson is one of the few English......

The Fourth Volume Of Mr. Arthur D. Innes' Very Useful

History of England and the British Empire (Rivington, 8s. 6d. net), issued in 1915, has reached a second edition, to which the author has added a tabular summary of the War and......