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The Court Of Common Council Of The City Of London

sends a copy of a Report adopted by the Court on the canal problem. The Court recommends the transfer of all our inland waterways to a central body like the Port of London......

Japan At The Cross Roads. By A. Al Pooley. (allen

and Unw:n. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Pooley's elaborate study of the present condition of Japan is distinctly critical and controversial in tone. Ho thinks that we have never heard the......

Some Neglected Aspects Of The War. By Spenser Wilkinson....

University Press. is. net.)—Profossor Wilkinson in this suggestive lecture declares that, since Sir William Robertson was appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff, "the......

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......

Messrs. George Philip And Son Send A Well-executed Map Of

Modern Palestine and Syria (Is. 6d. net), on a scale of about ten miles to an inch, with an inset of the Sinai Peninsula. The map extends far enough north to show Alexandretta......

Alison's Often-quoted Statement That The Average Height...

by an inch or more as a result of the Napoleonic Wars is shown by Mr. II. H. O'Farrell in War and the Stature of Population, a paper reprinted from the Eugenics Review for......