When We Used To Ask In Childhood, "how Many Miles
to Babylon ? " we never guessed that one day we should be brought so near to that marvellous old city as Dr. Robert Koldewey's book on The Excavations at Babylon (Macmillan and......
Mr. Roosevelt Has Often Expressed His Admiration For The...
of the late Jacob A. Riis, as a painstaking and sympathetic investigator of the life of the submerged poor in American cities. It will be shared by those who read Neighbors......
The Oa Conquest Of The World, By F. A. Talbot
(W. Heine- mann, 6s. net), describes the numerous uses to which petroleum and its derivatives have been put since oil was first "struck" in Pennsylvania in 1859 by Colonel......
It Was Observed On The Death Of The Late Lord
Radstock that an English nobleman who devoted his life to missionary enterprise of the "Revivalist" type was an unusual, if not a unique, phenomenon. The " interpretation and......
Professor W. Jethro Brown's Able Essay On The Prevention And
Control of Monopolies (John Murray, Gs. net) is largely a result of his appointment as Chairman of the Royal Commis- sion on the Australian Sugar Industry—a chastening experi-......
Mr. F. T. Jane, Whose Large Book On Fighting Ships
has long been known as a standard authority, has compiled a handy pocket-book showing silhouettes of all the world's Warships at a Glance, and a shilling Naval Recognition Book......
Dr. Charlemagne Tower, Who Was Formerly American...
Berlin, and Petrograd, has published a small volume of Essays (J. B. Lippincott Co.), amongst which his personal experience gives special value to that on " Diplomacy as a......
Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, The Dominion Entomologist Of...
written an exhaustive monograph on that almost ubiquitous pest The House-Fly (Cambridge University Press, 15s. net). The general reader will take most interest in the last two......
Colonel L. W. Shakespear Has Written A Most Excellent...
of Upper Assam, Upper Burmah, and North-Eastern Frontier (Macmillan and Co., 10s. net), which he fitly dedicates to his old companions in arms, the Assam Military Police, " the......
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