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Whether We Agreed Or Not With The Late Dr. Verrall,

we read his books with exhilaration. Yet his theories left most of us slightly dissatisfied ; he almost persuaded us that the plays of Euripides and Aeschylus either must be......

Footprints Of Robert Burns. By Jessie Patrick Findlay....

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Green Timber Trails. By William G. Chapman. (parsons. 8s....

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Scholarship And Learning.

It is doubtful whether there exists in Europe, outside Germany, any scholar except the author himself, Major Lorimer, and Sir George Grierson, to whom his book is most......

Crystallisation Of Metals. By Colonel N. T. Belaiew, C.b....

of London Press. 7s. 6d. net.) Crystallisation of Metals. By Colonel N. T. Belaiew, C.B. (University of London Press. 7s. 6d. net.) This book contains four lectures deWered in......

The Deeside Field. Edited By A. Macdonald And J. B.

Philip. (The Rosemount Press.) The Deeside Field. Edited by A. Macdonald and J. B. Philip. (The Rosemount Press.) These collected addresses of the Deeside Club are full of......

Birds, Beasts And Flowers.

Pan's People : the Lure of Little Beasts. By the Hon. Gilbert Coleridge. (T. Fisher Unwin. 9s. net.) It is often the case that the descendant of a great man will become, by a......

It Is Good To Know That A Considerably Expanded English

edition of this study of the Elizabethan theatre by Professor Sisson, of Elphinstone College, University of Bombay, is in preparation, for it is an important and exceedingly......

Sidelights On Birds. By H. Knight Horsefield. (heath...

6d. net.) This book, by the Natural History Editor of the Yorkshire Weekly Post, contains some delightful chapters suggesting the possession by birds of occult senses. Anyone......

Pamphlets Of The Whine School Of Herb Growing. By Mrs.

M. Grieve, F.R.H.S. (The Whine School, Chalfont St. Peter.) Theory and practice are united, it seems, at the Whins. The reviving of such private enterprise as this for the......

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all Londoners, who will be surprised to see how rich they are in trees, birds and plants. The reader is told what is to be seen month by month, and where to look for it. There......