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Industrial Lam. By F. Tillyard. (a. And C. Black. 10s.

net.)— In ordinary times this stout volume would perhaps have reosived the serious notice that - it deserves. There is comparative silence about its subject now, bit there is......

Fiction.

A DIARY OF THE GREAT WARR.* PREYS has often been imitated, but seldom with a greater measure of success, than by the ingenious anonymous writer of this Diary of the Great Warr.......

An Eminent Chemist.*

Tax late Sir Henry Roscoe will be remembered not so much for his contributions to the science of chemistry as for what he did to enhance the repute of the chemist in England.......

Readadlz Novats.—the Distaff Dreamers. By Margaret...

Co. 6s.)—A very charming story in which the two principal characters are representatives of old City families. The poetic aspects of the old City buildings were never more......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Nam fn this column dais not nrestearity preclude rub;equent roam.] Termination of War and Treaties of Peace. By Coleman Phillipson, M.A., LL.D., Litt.D. (T. Fisher Unwin. 21s.......

Summer Holidays In The Alps, 1898-1914. By W. E. Durham.

(T. Fisher Unwin. 15e. )—Prebendary Durham, ae an old climber, has solaced himself in war time, when Switzerland became inaccessible foe mere tourists, by recalling the climbs......