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Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice is this eolunsn doe4 not necessarily preclude subsequent review; The Edinburgh Review opens with a weighty article by Pro- fessor Alison Phillips on "The Peace......

Fiction.

THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN AMERICA.* THE first of Mr. Stephen Leacock's series of benefactions to the reading public was entitled Literary Lapses. The opening section of his latest......

Zeebrugge And Ostend.*

THE historian of an adventure which a French Admiral has generously described as "the finest feat of arms in the naval history of all times and of all countries" is undoubtedly......

Readable Novels.—home Fires In France. By Dorothy...

net.)—There is so much poignant description of the suffering of the French in this book that if the war were not over it would prove intolerable reading. As it it is wholesome......