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Finance-public & Private.

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] MARKET UNCERTAINTIES. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—To all outward appearances the stock markets are entirely unperturbed by the fact that the......

Roman Poetry. By E. E. Sikes, M.a. (methuen. 8s. 6d.)

The general aim of this very admirable volume is to bring classic poetry into touch with modern criticism—a thing which is not often done. This is the only means by which the......

Nature And Cultivation.

A Bee Melody. By Herbert Brown. (Melrose. 6s.) One subject, properly studied, involves all the rest of the universe, or so at least we had been told without seriously accepting......

Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Philip Graves was peculiarly well qualified, as the Times correspondent at Constantinople before and since the War, and as a staff officer at headquarters in the Near East,......

The Antiquity Of Proverbs. By Dwight Edwards Marvin....

6d.) The Antiquity of Proverbs. By Dwight Edwards Marvin. (Putnam. 12s. 6d.) Mr. Marvin has studied the proverbs of every language deeply, and in this book he takes fifty common......

The Tragedy Of Central Europe. By E. Ashmead-bartlett....

21s.) Mr. Bartlett is at his best in descriptions of the events in which he actually took part, such as the Bolshevist revolution in Hungary and the capture by Royalist officers......

Popular Poultry Pointers. By Ralston R. Hannas, M.sc....

: The Macmillan Company. 10s. 6d. net.) Popular Poultry Pointers. By Ralston R. Hannas, M.Sc. (New York : The Macmillan Company. 10s. 6d. net.) Even a city man " possessed by......

In Memoriam.

In Memoriam : Charlotte M. Mason. (P.N.E.U., 26 Victoria Street, S.W. 1. 3s. 6d.) All who are interested in the work of the Parents National Education Union will welcome this......

Adventures In The Near East : 1918-1922. By Lieut.-col. A.

Rawlinson. (Melrose. 25s. net.) This book (which is illustrated with many excellent photo- graphs) gives an account of the work of Colonel Rawlinson, as Special Service Officer,......

28s. Net.) Professor Lindsay's Main Object In This...

to show that Plautus echoed in his verse—notably in the hiatus—the everyday talk of a Roman in the second century before Christ, and that Plautine metre, a pre-adaptation of the......