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Joking Apart. By The Hon. Min. Dowdall. (duckworth And Co.

5s. net.)—Joking apart, this is a ridiculous book. Almost any reader will find it exasperating. At the some time, almost any reader will laugh occasionally, wherever he may be......

Booss Of Raranturce.—we Have Before Ns The New Issues Of

The Methodist Who's Who (C. H. Kelly, Is. 6d. net), a volume the scope of which is sufficiently shown by the title, and The London Diocese Book (S.P.C.K., Is. 6d. net).— Another......

The Questions Of The Origin Of "dew-ponds," And Of The

manner of their action, have long supplied opportunities for iontroversy. Mr. Edward A. Martin in his Dow-Ponds: Victory, Observation, acid Experiment (T. Werner Laurie, 6s.)......