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One Great Advantage About This Book Is That The Diagrams

of muscles are large enough to be clear, and are drawn with decision and intelligence. The explanatory text is also easy to read and understand, and the book a decidedly helpful......

Restoration Of The World's Currencies. By R. A. Lehfeldt....

S. King and son. 6s. net.) Economists who are interested in Rand gold mining questions are well acquainted with the works of Professor Lehfeldt, of the Witwatersrand University,......

Applied Science.

War poetry, War fiction, War histories, in fact almost every conceivable kind of War literature, have been presented to the public en gros ; but, as far as we know, this book is......

Supplying Britain's Meat. By George E. Putnam. (harrap....

Mr. Putnam's highly interesting book describes the meat trade and shows how frozen mutton from New Zealand, chilled beef from the River Plate, and hams from Chicago find their......

Hints On How To Punctuate. By David Frew. (blaekie And

Son. 2s. net.) Mr. Frew is quite sane on the subject of punctuation. We say this because there are persons who are certainly insane about it. Some of them punctuate their......

Laura Knight: A Book Of Drawings. With A Foreword By

Charles Marriot and descriptive notes. (John Lane. £3 3s. net.) An altogether delightful book. Mrs. Knight is one of our most brilliant living draughtsmen ; spontaneous, fluid,......

We Fear That The Middle-class Public Knows Nothing About The

great educational system built up and managed by the London County Council. If our fears are justified, Mr. Margrie's entertaining and unpretentious little book will be a......

Education.

The New Education in Europe. By F. W. Roman, Ph.D. (Routledge. 12s. 6d.) It has been Dr. Roman's task during the last four years to investigate thoroughly the schools and......

The Arts.

Although there are no original views expressed in this book, and although its criticism does not penetrate to any great depth, the book is a useful outline of French painting......

Labour Supply And Regulation. By Humbert Wolfe. (h....

6d. net.) Mr. Wolfe, whose witty Circular Saws is reviewed on page 261, has sternly subdued himself in this volume of the Carnegie Endowment's economic and social history of the......