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Surveying For Archaeologists. By Sir Norman Lockyer....

Co. 4s. net.)—This book is of course of a highly technical character. Perhaps its general scope may be best under- stood from chaps. 18 arid 19, "The Finding of Dates by......

Sone Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice Ruth Books of ths walk as hare not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Shadow of the Dial, and other Essays. By Ambrose Biome. (A. M.......

Under Three Tsars. By R. S. Latimer. (morgan And Scott.

3s. 6d. net.)—The swing of the Russian pendulum in the region of religious toleration is strongly marked. We need not go back beyond Alex- ander I. It was not so much as thought......

Throvgh Uganda To Mount Elgon. By J. B. Purvis. T.

Fisher Unwin. es.)—Mount Elgon is an extinct volcano to the north.east of Lake Victoria Nyanza, ard it was in the region of which' it is he dcninating feature that Mr. Purvis......

In The Excellent Series Of "cambridge County Geographies"...

University Press, is. 6d.) we have Wiltshire, by A. G. Bradley, and Hertfordshire, by R. Lydekker. The physical features—hills, plains, rivers, Ac.--climate, rainfall, minerals,......

Semmelweis : His Life And His Doctrine. By Sir William

J. Sinclair, M.D. (University of Manchester Press. 7s. 6d. net.)—Semmelweis's contribution to medical science was in the matter of puerperal fever. He was struck with the......

We Must Be Content With Recording The Appearance Of...

of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 1%. (Williams and Norgate, 2s. 6d. net). We may remark, however, that these " pro- ceedinga " sometimes touch upon matters in which......