29 JUNE 1918, page 16

Some Books- Of The Week.

[Notice in tkis column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] South Slav Monuments : I. Serbian Orthodox Church. Edited by M. J. Pupin. (J. Murray. 42s.)—Sir T. G.......

A Short Italian Dictionary. By Alfred Hoare. Vol. I., "

Italian- English." (Cambridge-University Press. 9s. net.)—Now that there is a great revival of Italian studies in this country, Mr. Hoare's admirable dictionary is assured of a......

Among Several Attractive Reprints Just Published. By Mr....

of Oxford, the most timely is Thomas Hobbes's version of The Funeral. Oration Spoken by Pericles, from the Second Hook of Thucydides (2s. 6d. net). The Athenian statesman's......

Readable Novees - .—the Foolishness Of Lilian: By Jessie...

613.)--The story of a factory girl who rises in life, being of such ability that she excels in every one of the professions which she adopts. Her .marriagn finally puts an end......

The Second Number, For June, Of 'the Angto-italian Beview...

stable and Co., ls. 3d.) confirms the promise shown by the first. There is a timely article on "The Venetian Front," though the magazine went to press just too soon to record......

The Attraetive And Well-illustrated Spanish Monthly,...

published in Paris for - circulation in South America, contains in its June number a notable letter from Don Ricardo Sanchez, formerly Chilean Minister in Berlin, returning to......

An Interesting Pamphlet Has Been Written By Mr. Arthur T.

Bolton, the Curator of Sir John Soane's Museum, on Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing Green, once Soane's country house and now the Ealing Public Library (Soane Museum, 7d.). George Dance......

The Praywork Book. 13y Ann Macbeth. (methuen And Co. 3s.

6d. net.)—Harassed mothers and governesses will find in this ingenious book a whole series- of simple and intelligent diversions for young children. Miss Macbeth, who has long......

Co-operation In Danish Agriculture. By Harald Faber....

Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Faber has adapted for English readers a Danish book by Mr. Hertel, one of the leaders of the Co-operative movement which- has bestowed great benefits on......

. Forestry Work. By W. H. Whellens. (t. Fisher Unwin.

8s. 6d. net..)—This is a practical little book ; describing, clearly the principles of forestry for the many beginners who, it is to be hoped, will take up this industry before......

Fiction.

PICCADILLY JIM.t IN this ingenious extravaganza Mr. Wodehouse continues his studies of life in New York and London, but principally New York, with the same laudable impartiality......

Collected Poems, 1897-1907. By Henry Newbolt. (nelson.....

many readers, old and young, will be. glad to know of this cheap reprint of a number of Sir Henry Newbolt's best and moat familiar poems. We say " old and young-" advisedly. No......