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Readable Novels. — The Song Of This Stars. By Alec...

and Unwin. Se.)—An Indian story, the heroine of which has an English father and an Afghan mother. Her • The Spy in Blatt. By J. Storer Glendon. London: W. Blackwood aue Sews.......

The Way Forward. By Gilbert Murray. (allen And Unwin. Is.

net.)—To Professor Murray's reprinted articles on the war, on thopossibility of making peace with a reformed Germany, and on the domestic outlook after peace is roistered, Lord......

Fiction.

THE SPY IN BLACK.. EVER since the days of The Lunatic at Large we have looked to Mr. Storer Clouston for high-spirited and hilarious entertainment and have never been......

Then And Now. By C. H. Firth. (macmillan And Co.

le,)— This admirable paper, the Creighton Lecture for 1917, supplies just such "a comparison between the war with Napoleon and the present war" as many people who arc not......

Some Books Of The Week.

Mika in ate columns dOGS not neeettarUy preclude subsequent mean] Mr. Alf red T. Davies, the energetic Direotor of the British Prieonere of War Book Scheme (Educational), has......

History As Taught In America.*

IT has often been said, and as often denied, that American public opinion has been rendered unfriendly to Great Britain by the influence of the historical text-books used in the......

Sea Power And Freedom. By Gerard Menne& (skoffington....

net.)—Mr. Fiennee's interesting sketch of naval history, and above all of the rise of the British Navy, is addressed not to experts but to the man in the street and the child in......

Wilhelm The Ruthless. Illu.strated By David Wilson....

6d. net.)—This satire on the "ruthlessness" which had become a pet word in Germany before the war, and 1188 81880 been applied In practice, is cast in the form of a drama, and......

The Wheat Problem, By Sir William Crookes. (longmaus And Co.

3s. 6d. net.)—Sir William Crookes has maimed his remarkable address to the British Association in 1898 for this third edition, which will assuredly attract more attention than......