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Memoirs Of Anna M. W. Pickering. Edited By Her Son,

Spencer Pickering, F.R.S. (Hodder and Stoughton. 16s. net.)—Anna Pickering was the eldest child of John Spencer Stanhope and Elizabeth Coke (daughter of Mr. Coke of Holkham,......

A Handbook Of Modern Japan. By Ernest W. Clement. (kegan

Paul, Trench, and Co. 6s. net.)—This book is not the less interesting and useful because it was not specially compiled in view of the present situation. The introduction bears......

Confessions Of A Journalist. By Chris Healy. (chatto And...

6s.)—.A firm of publishers may find it consistent with discretion to give this volume in its entirety to the world, but a critic has serious doubts whether it would be prudent......

The Khedive's Country. Edited By G. Manville Fenn....

Co. 5s.)—Mr. Fenn, whose appearance in a new line of literature we welcome, explains that his information comes in the main from the Superintendent of the Khedive's farms near......

Antwerp : An Historical Sketch. By Wilfrid C. Robinson. (r.

and T. Washbourne. 5s. net.)—For some years during the second half of the sixteenth century the history of Antwerp was full of tragical interest. Outside this period it has......

Some Two Hundred Soldiers To Divide It. It Was The

ransom for the Inca. Pizarro took it, and then put the ransomed man to death. It is not easy to see how he conformed to what Mr. Graham says was his ideal,—honour first, and......