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The Story Of The Tower Of London. By Reria Francis.

(Harrap and Co. £1 net.)—There is a magnificence about the format and printing of this new book upon the Tower that should commend it to any who are still lavish in their......

A Gallery Of Heroes And Heroines. By Sir Harry Johnston.

(Wells Gardner, Dorton, and Co. 5s. net.)—Sir Harry Johnston has written a dozen brief Lives of famous Britons, beginning with Drake, ending with Captain Scott, and including......

The Quest And Occupation Of Tahiti And Cathay And The

Way Thither. (The Hakluyt Society.)—The first of these new publi- cations of the Hakluyt Society is a continuation of Mr. Glanvill . Corney's translation of the history of the......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does ,wt neceasarily preclude subsequent review.] Mr. Gerald Lascelles knows the New Forest as well as any an living ; he was made Deputy Surveyor by Lord......

Coming After Fellow-volumes Dealing With The Garden In...

in summer, Mr. E. A. Bowles's My Garden in Autumn and Winter completes his trilogy, and is the best of the three (T. C. and E. C. Jack, 5s. net). Mr. Bowles is a thorough......

John Ferguson : A Play In Four Acts. By St.

John G. Ervin°. (Maunsel and Co. 2s. not.)—One of those pathetic tragedies of rural life for which Ireland seems to afford such abundant material. It has all that atmosphere of......

The Travelling Companions. By Lady Margaret Saekville....

Co. Os. net.)—This is an illustrated and enlarged edition of ingenious fairy-stories. Miss Florence Anderson's pictures are above the average in daintiness, and, though she owes......

Prince Ahmed And The Fairy Perie Banou. (gay And Hancock.

2s. 6d. net.)—This talc from The Arabian Nights has been " deco- rated " by Mr. Charles Robinson ; that is to say, there are five coloured plates in which the artist . tries......

Tigerland. By C. E. Gouldsbury. (chapman And Hall. 2s. 6d.

net.)—A new and cheaper edition of Mr. Gouldsbury's vividly written Reminiscences of Forty Years' Sport and Adventure in Bengal. We should imagine it would be a very welcome......

Old La Ndon's Spas, Baths, And Wells. By Soptimus Sunder-

land, M.D. (John Bale, Sons, and Danielsson. 7s. 6d. nets)— " Tod's Well, a corruption of Gode Well (Good Well) or Golding's Well, situated in the Clerkenwdll neighbourhood,......