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War Picture-books..

Mn. Kewsrmarost. lea a very remarkable power of direct state- ment. He prefers portraits to general impressions, and by his wonderfully realized heads and figures of soldiers......

The City Of Trouble.t

Miss BUCHANAN'S book is an interesting, lively, and picturesque account of her experiences at Petrograd from the beginning of the war till January, 1918, when her father, the......

The Origin Of Consciousness..

THE purpose of Professor Strong's book is to consider " whether consciousness can be so conceived that its evolutionary origin shall be possible," and so to lay the foundations......

Charles Booth.*

Tins brief memoir, a small book on a man who accomplished a great work, is a signal proof of the self-restraint of the anonymous author. The materials available were immense,......