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Roman Coins From The Earliest Times To The Fall Of

THE WESTERN EMPIRE. By Harold Mattingly. (Methiien. 21 . s.)Mr. Mattingly's thorough and scholarly treatize on the ROman coinage was very Mach . needed. Much detailed work has......

The Firm Hand. By Harold Bindloss. (ward, Lock. 7s. 6d.)—the

%order country of Northumbria and Scotland, and Canada provide the background for Mr. Bindloss's new story. To tell the truth, the background is of as much importance as the......

A Maid Among Men. By Alexander Wrexe. (putnino. 7s. 6d.)—the

maid is a lady's maid, in which role" the aristocratic French heroine masquerades in escaping from the desperate poverty and monotony of her home life. If American employers......

Travels Of Fray Sebastien Manrique. (vol. I. Quaritch....

'late_ Colonel C. E. Luard has translated and edited these papers for the -Hakluyt Society. Manrique, though a Portuguese, wrote in " disastrous Spanish " (desastroso......

Current Literature

SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBES. (Macmillan. 2 vols., illus- trated. 50s.)—M. Junod's name has long been known as that of an authority on South African ethnology. This truly monumental......

The Nile And Egyptian Civilization. By Alexandre Moret....

25s.)—In this new volume of the History of Civilization, a great publishing enterprise that commands our respectful admiration, the well-known French Egyptologist, Professor......

The Outdoor Monuments . Of London. By It Is Perhaps Kinder

to say little about the 'artistic qualities of marly_of London's statriesi but they and other monuments are memorials of the just pride of the nation in its own sons and some......

The Highgate Mystery. By Charles Kingstone. (the Bodle$.•...

6d.),There is a great lack of. finish about Mr. 'Kingston's book - . When one first readi 'aboUt Miriam Fergus, " one of those women who buy their postage stamps in chemists'......

Answers To Questions On The - Prayer Book 1. Lessons...

Sundays, Holy Days, and _proper psalms. —2. " Sabaoth "=Hosts. (Not another way of spelling Sabbath.) —3. Rubric at end of Catechism : And every one shall have a Godfather, or a......