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Into My Scottish Sketch Book (Country Life, 21s.) that capital artist and sportsman, Mr. Lionel Edwards, has collected sixteen sketches of Northern scenes not hitherto used up.......

The Experience Of The Author Of Six Months In The

Red Army, (Hutchinson, 12s. 6d.), was certainly_ thrilling in the extreme. though the diary is rather spoiled by its hysterical style The later chapters, giving an account of......

The Pitiful Story Of Ireland In Elizabeth's Reign Has Been

told dispassionately by Bagwell. It is now rewritten in fuller detail, but with a strong Irish Roman Catholic bias, by Father Myles V. Ronan in The Reformation in Ireland under......

(continued From Page 714.) All Who Knew The Late Professor

Bury, whether in person or through his brilliant writings, will welcome the Selected Essays of J. B. Bury, which Mr. Harold . Temperley has put together and prefixed with a'......

A Desert Route From Syria To Iraq Is Now In

regular use, by motor-car from Damascus. But in the eighteenth century a longer and more perilous way from Aleppo direct to Basra was taken by many hardy travellers going to or......

Travel

Why Not Canada ? [We publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in their plans for travel at hoMe and abroad. They are written by correspondents who have......

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A nursing sister, Miss K. E. Luard, gives a moving account in Unknown Warriors (Chatto and Windus, 7s. 6d.), of her experiences in various hospitals. The heroism of the wounded......

- Answeri To Questions On Blindness 1. Longfellow.,=2. "...

Byron (" Bride of Abydos ") referring to Homer.-4. Milton, " Sonnet to Cyriack Skinner."—S. His feathers and motto from the King of. Bohemia who fell at Crecy.-6. The Cyclopes.......