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On The Rand. He Set Up A Store There In

1887 " on the bare published by the British Committee of the Trento-Trieste National Association of Italy, has ceased publication as a weekly journal and will, it is hoped,......

The Diary Of A South African. By M. ?l Steyn.

(Cape Town: J. 0. Jute. 5s. ed.)—This unpretentious autobiography contains interesting chapters on Kimberley and Johannesburg in the early days. Mr. Steyn was born at the Cape,......

Lord Charnwood Says Some Wise And True Things About America

in a short article in the current Anglo-French Review. " While in some ways Americans may think too much of the greatness of their country, it is really a more serious defect......

Sapper Dorothy Lawrence, The Only English Woman Soldier....

net.)—In the old days it was not uncommon for a woman to enlist as a sailor or soldier. One woman, as a corre- spondent recently reminded us, rose to a high position in the Army......

How To See The Battlefields. By Captain Atherton Fleming....

2s. 6d. net.)—This is a readable and practical little guide to the battle-zone from Nieuport and Ypres to the Marne and Aisne, interspersed with anecdotes from the author's own......

The Dramatic Records Of Sir Henry Herbert. Edited By Joseph

Quincy Adams. (Yale University Press and H. Milford. 10s. 6d. net.)—Students of the seventeenth-century stage will find this book useful and interesting. It contains all the......

Boche And Bolshevik. By Hereward T. Price. (murray. 68....

author of this book is an Englishman by birth who, some years before the war, became naturalized as a German, presumably in order to improve his position as a lecturer at Bonn.......

Speeches From Thucydides. Selected From Jowett's...

net.)—Professor Gilbert Murray has chosen fifteen famous passages, chiefly speeches, from Jowett's version of Thucydides, and written an Introduction in which he dis- cusses the......

To Kiel In The Hercules.' By Lewis R. Freeman. (murray.

6s. net.)—In this highly interesting book Mr. Freeman describes the visit of the Allied Naval Commission last December to the German naval ports and air stations for the purpose......

The Salonica Side-show. By V. J. Seligman. (allen And Unwin.

10s. 6d. net.)—The tedium of a long campaign in un- healthy Macedonia did not affect Mr. Seligman's spirits. His second book is even more amusing and also more instructive than......