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Burden's Hospitals And Charities, 1916. By Sir Henry...

Press. 10s. 6d. net.)—The veteran editor of this familiar and indispensable book again asks in his preface for a successor, as he has worked for the voluntary hospitals through......

Readable Novels.—the Sheltered Sex. By Madge Mears. (john...

pre-war book deamibing the adventures of a young lady who very properly objects to living at home with nothing to do. Tho problems involved would hardly arise at this......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Noiies in this column does not necusarai prietnis stout:mit rsois v.) Antwerp, 1177 - 1559. By Jervis Wegg. (Methuen and Co. 21s. net.) —Close connexions have existed between......

The Quarterlies.

Or the topical articles in the Quarterly none is more likely to attract attention than the first instalment of Mr. J. M. de Beaufort's " Voyage of Discovery in Northern......

Patriotic Food Economy For The Well - To - Do. (national...

3 Woodstock Street, Oxford Street. 6d.)—The authors of this pamphlet, taking for granted " that every British housemistress wishes to live up (or down) to the standard required......

We Have Received The Tenth Volume Of The London...

Record (Office of the London Topographical Society), a series which ought to interest every Londoner with a grain of local patriotism. Tho special articles in this issue include......

Fiction.

PROUD PETER.* hie. W. E. NORRIS has been writing novels for nearly forty years, but though he must have close on thirty books to his credit, ho has never declined to the level......