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Canada And The British Immigrant. By Emily P. Weaver....

Tract Society. lie. (3d. net.)—The author of this book settled in Canada a good many years ago, and is, there- fore, able to put herself in the position of the intending......

Grisel Married. By Mrs. George De Home Vaizey. (mills And

Boon. 6s.)—This book belongs to what might be called the country-house type of novel—that is, most of the characters are "county" people living in excellently run......

Highways And Byways In Shakespeare's Country. By W. H....

(Macmillan and Co. 5e. net.)—We heartily envy Mr. Hutton his pleasant teak, and do not wonder that "it is with a sigh that the pen is laid down, the books put away, the feet no......

Some Books Of The Week.

Mader Otis Itutding notico such Books of lie owls as Sass mg hot roserood for review Ot othsr fora',.] The Portuguese Amnesty. By the Earl of Lytton. (L. Tfpcott Gill and Son.......

Maize. By J. Burtt-davy. (longmont/ And Co. 25e. Net.) —in

this portly volume one of the most important food-grains of the world is studied with great thoroughness. The author is a botanist and agricultural expert in the service of the......

Readable Novelb.—moulablidge. By John Ayscough. (chatto...

of life in an English country town. "John Ayscough's" usual readers will not be surprised to find that most of the good people in the book become Roman Catholics.—The Price of......

A Traveller At Forty. By Theodore Dreiser. (grant...

(3d. net.)—This is a rather disappointing book. The author is a well-known American novelist of the neo- realistic school, and we expected that his first impressions of England......

The History And Theory Of Vitalism. By Hans Driesch....

and Co. 5e. net.)—Mr. C. K. Ogden's excellent translation of Professor Drieech's well-known book has bad the advantage of a thorough revision by the author, who has also......

James. By W. Dane Bank. (sidgwick And Jackson. 6s.) —james

Bowden was not a youth to be admired, and we confess that we are easily able to withstand his "animal magnetism." He was educated at the Council school of a Lancashire factory......

The Philosophy Of Biology. By James Johnatone. (cam-...

Press. 9s. net)—The point of view and the methods of treatment adopted in this learned and thoughtful essay are those suggested by Driesch and Bergson. Science, says Driesch, is......