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The Royal Runaway. By Laurence Housman. (chapman And...

a King steals his own crown jewels and runs away from his throne, both the private life which he adopts and the public and political life which he has left behind are full of......

Report Of The International - Commission On The Balkan...

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.) —In July, 1913, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace appointed a Commission of eight to undertake an impartial inquiry......

Sylvia Saxon. By Ellen Melicent Cobden. (t. Fisher Unwin....

title-page of Miss Cobden's study of second-rate society both deceives us as to the nature of her wares and underestimates their value. She calls her book "episodes in a life,"......

" Break !" By A Naval Officer. (the Fleet. Le.

net.)— Although most of this little book was written some years ago, it still gives a stirring description of "how the British seamen prepare for war." Brief picturesque......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading tr. Notice such Books of ths vests as hays not iests TIMITTC11 for review in other fora's.] With Wellington in the Pyrenees. By Brigadier-General Beatson.......

We Are Glad To Commend To Our Readers Two Helpful

pamphlets containing Forms of Prayer for Public and Private Use in Time of War, and Forms of Prayer for Domestic and Private Use in Time of War, by Canon Newbolt (S.P.C.K., 2d.......

Readable - Novels.—sunrise Valley. By Marion Hill. (john...

of farm life in Pennsylvania. The heroine is a school teacher lodging at the farm, who carries out her duties in an unconvincingly able fashion. Maria. By Baroness von Hutton.......

The Principles Of War Historically Illustrated. Vol. I....

E. A. Altham. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—The author of this admirably written book begins by expressing the opinion that it would be impossible for him to improve on the......

Fiction.

ALBERTA AND THE OT.HERS.• THE recent influx of settlers into Western Canada is beginning to bear literary fruit, and when it springs from first-hand experience, as in the case......