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The Statesman's Year Book Fin- 1917. Edited By J. Scott

Keltio, assisted by IL Epstein. (Macmillan and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)— The fifty-fourth edition of our familiar friend, though somewhat late in appearing, is surprisingly complete,......

We Have Received From Repton Boys The First Number Of

a spirited little journal entitled A Public School Looks at the Wend, and published at sixpence monthly. Apart from the signed articles by outside contributors like the Rev. W.......

We May Draw Attention To The " Athenaeum " Subject

Index .to Periodicals, 1916, issued at the request of the , Council of the Library Association. A new part, devoted to theology and philosophy as discussed in a very large......

The 3rd London General Hospital At Wandsworth Has A Clever

and amusing monthly magazine of its own, written and illustrated 'by soldiers and nurses in-the hospital. From the - first year's issues Mr. Ward - Muir and Mr. Noel Irving have......

The Afemairs Of A Balkan Diplomatist. By Count Chedomille...

(Cassell and Co. 16s. net.)—Count Mijatovich, who has held various Ministerial offices, and also represented Serbia in London and other -capitals, has written a frank and......

Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. By W. H. T. Gairdner....

W. Heifer. 12s. Rd. net.)---Mr. Gairdner, of the Church Missionary Society, who is the Superintendent of Arabic Studies -at the Cairo Study Centre, has done a groat service to......

Spun Yarns Of A Naval Officer. By A. R. Wonham.

(P. S. King and Son. 105. Gd. net.)—Captain Wonham spins some good yarns about his long and varied experience in the Navy. He joined the Servke in 1880, hi the days when steam......

War Cooicery.--how To Make Bully-beef Attractive Is One...

Pizziani's aims in Dainty Dishes for Camp and Home (John Lane, Od. net). How far the cooks in the trenches are provided with anchovies, potent°, and curry—to say nothing of......

Two Towns—one City Paris, London. By John F. Macdonald....

Richards. 7e. 6d. not.)--The late Mr. Macdonald, whose early death in 1915 was partly due to his labours in French hospitals, -pleased many readers by his gay and cheerful......

The July Number Of History, The Well-edited Quarterly...

the Historical Association (Macmillan and Co., la. net), contains an admirable letter from Mr. Fisher, the Minister of Education, emphasizing the high importance oT history in......

New Ideate In Business. By Ida M. Tarbell. (macmillan And

Co. Is. 6d4—American industry used to be far behind ours in providing for the safety and welfare of workpeople. Miss Tarbelfs interesting book, based, like her history of the......

France. By Christophe Nyrop. Translated From The Dana By C.

A. Bang and A. G. Cbater. (W. Heinemann. Is. net,)— This little book is an able and glowing tribute to the genius of France—the Femme of -Roland and Bayard, -and the France of......

Handbook Of Physiology. By W. D. Halliburten. (j. Murray....

-net.)—The publieher's note to tho twenty-sixth edition of this well-known text-book states that the first edition was written by W. S. Kirkes in 1848 from the notes of Sir......

The Liquor Traffic As A National Problem. By Will Reason.

'(Congregational Union. 9d. net.)—In this little pamphlet Mr. Reason, a well-known Chesterfield minister, writes very temperately on the various possible solutions of the drink......