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There Is Nothing Deceptive In The Appearance Of Poisonous...

They are not wolves in sheep's clothing, but on the contrary, exactly what they seem—villains whose colour, shape, scent and habitat all proclaim the evil that is in thein. Mr.......

Combines And Trusts In The Electrical Industry...

£5 5s.) is a large and expensiVe volume of a somewhat technical nature. Belgium, Italy, France, Germany and Switzerland may be considered as closed preserves, the author tells......

Roedean School Is So Well Known And So Deservedly Popular

that many will welcome the book on the subject by the late Mr. L. Cope Cornford and Mr. F. R. Yearbury. Messrs. Benn are the publishers, and the fifty-six illustrations are......

* * * * We Would Also Recommend A Pamphlet

by Professor Thomp- son, of McGill University, consisting chiefly of reprints of articles in the Morning Post, on the employment of British capital in Canada : it may be......

This Week's Books

DURING the past month the books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been :— Fic-rrox.=-Witch Wood, by John Buchan ; No Other Tiger, by A. E. 8V. Mason ; Meanwhile, by H.......

. Mr. Lewis Melville Has Now Been So Long Before

the public as a gossiping writer on the lighter social sides of eighteenth- century life that one is tolerably well able to predict, even without reading Maids of Honour......

It Is Such A Joy To This Reviewer's Eyes To

rest for a few moments on the growing things of field and garden rather than the dull problems and philosophies of men, that we make no apology for commending Sutton's Bulbs as......

General Knowledge Questions

Tars week the Editor awards the prize of one guinea, which is offered weekly for the best thirteen general knowledge questions, with answers, to Mrs. Mackenzie's paper. Hundreds......

We Arc Glad To Find That The " Picture Galleries

" series now includes a volume on Glasgow (Hours in the Glasgow Art Galleries, by T. C. F. Brotchie, Duckworth, 3s. 6d.), for her collections are of high artistic importance and......