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The Heart Of The Lakes.*

Mn. WITHERS is already known to a select few, both as an intimate interpreter of the Lake Country and as the master of a pure and pondered style. His latest book should widen......

Fiction.

A NEW NOVELIST.t IT was unwise of Mr. Liam O'Flaherty to publish his reasons for writing this novel. He wrote it, he says, in the first place because Synge's book about one of......

The Romans In Britain.*

Tins popular account, by a competent archaeologist, of Roman Britain was very much needed and will be welcomed by many readers. Much has been done, especially in the last twenty......

The Finite Universe.*

IN this book the Astronomer of the Paris Observatory has provided such mental food as would have served even Cole- ridge's insatiable mind for a lifetime of poetic......