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The Shadow Captain. By E. B. And A. A. Knipe.

(John Lane. 7s. 6d. net.)—Though the scene of The Shadow Captain is New York in the first decade of the eighteenth century, this novel is little concerned with the social......

Russia In Division. By Stephen Graham. (macmillan. 7s....

is in reality a book of essays about Russia, picturesque and informing essays, many of which have already appeared in the Times. Mr. Stephen Graham's conclusions and hopes are......

Fiction

ANCESTORS The Tree of the Folkungs. By Verner von Heidenstam• (GyldendaL 2 vols. 12s. net.) WE view the past through distorting glasses. Rome and Greece, flanked by a pyramid,......