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The Law Of. Naval Warfare. By J. A. Hall. (chapman

and Hall. 30e. net.)—Mr. Hall published the first edition of his useful book just -before the war. This new edition has thus had to be in great part rewritten. It is a......

Some Books Of The Week.

throlim.in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.) Edward Prince of Wales. By G. Ivy Sanders. (Nisbet. 2s. 6d. net.)—This pleasant and unpretentious......

Studies In Islamic Mysticism. By R. A.. Nicholson. (cam-...

University Press. 24s. net.)---Dr. Nicholson has described in this work the life and teaching of three famouaSufis or mystics, the Persians Alm Said (967-1049) and Al-Jill......

'roland D Roncevaux. By Joseph Bedier. (clarendon Press....

Bddier's Romanee Lecture, delivered on June 4th, was a brilliant analysis of the Chanson de Boland, the first of the spies of chivalry and one of the products of the great......

The Corpus Mosaary. Edited By W. M. Lindsay. (cam- Bridge

University Press. 40s. net.)—Professor Lindsay has performed a very difficult task -in editing " F.ngland's oldest dictionary," an eighth-century glossary in the library of......

Poets And Poetry,

MR. SQUIRE'S ANTHOLOGY.* THE fact that will probably strike the reader most on looking through Mr. Squire's Selections from Modern Poets is the remarkable gap that the omission......

The Koran. Translatedinto English By George Sale. (warne....

translation first appeared in 1134. Sir Edward Denison Ross, in a preface to this comely reprint, says that Sale's version has not been superseded, and that his " prelimi- nary......