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The Lhota. Nagas. By J. P. Mills. (macmillan. 25s. Net.)—mr.

Mills has added a valuable item to the great debt which anthropology already owes to the Indian Civil Service. His monograph on the Lhota Nagas is such a loving yet critical......

Springs And Wells In Greek And Roman Literature. By James

Reuel Smith. (Putnam's. £1.) —The legends attached to springs and wells in classical literature might have been retold in a more attractive way, but they could not have been......

General Astronomy. By H. Spencer Jones. (arnold. 21s....

popular treatise on astronomy is required every few years, and no one is better qualified than Mr. Spencer Jones to carry on the apostolic succession of Herschel and Newcomb. He......

Cambridge Plain Texts. — The Cambridge Univer- Sity Press...

further series of " Cambridge Plain Texts in English " (1s. 3d. net each). These are, the first book of Bacon's The Advancement of Learning, a work which is, in effect, a......

Public Finance. By M. E. Robinson. (nisbet. 5s....

the third volume in the series of " Cambridge Economic Handbooks," edited by Mr. J. M. Keynes. The author, who is a Fellow and Lecturer of Newnham, gives a clear account of the......

The Principle Of Official Independence. By Robert...

S. King. 109. 6d. net.)—Dr. Dawson's monograph was written as a thesis for the London D.Sc., and is now published under the auspices of the London School of Economics and......

The Foreign Relations Of China. By Mingchien Joshua Bau....

18s. net.)—This enlarged edition of Mr. Bau's excellent book includes the results of the Washington Conference so far as they affect China. In a new chapter Mr. Bau discusses......

Water - Power In The British Empire. (constable. 3s. 6d....

little book is a summary of the three Reports of the Water-Power Committee of the Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies, which was appointed in 1917 "to report on what is at......

Finance-public & Private.

MR. McKENNA ON THE CRISIS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—So far as the crisis in home politics is concerned, the chief event of the past week has been the inter•......

Radio For Everybody. By Austin C. Lescarboura. (methuen....

net.)—" Radio " is the American term for what in this country is usually called " wireless." This read- able and well-illustrated account of its marvels, written by the managing......

Principal New And Forthcoming Publications.

Baddeley-(Sir S. J.), Cripplegate, 4to (Hodder & Stoughton) net 2:/.1 Ilaudauln (C.), Studies In Psychoanalysis, 8vo (G. Allen & Unw(n) net 12;6 Bethada Naem N. Erenn, Lives of......