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Excess Profits Duty And Excess Mineral Rights Duty. By R.

M. Montgomery, K.C., and W. Allen. (Butterworth. 12s. Bd. net.)— The practical value of a Legal text-book is demonstrated by the appearance of a second edition. In this case the......

The State And The Nation. By Edward Jenks. (dent. 4a.

net.)—This is an expansion of the author's Short History of Politics, giving " a popular statement, in simple terms, of the main lines of social and political evolution." It is......

In The New Bulletin Of The John Rylands Library (manchester

University Press, 2s.) Dr. Rendel Harris prints for the first time three interesting letters from John Eliot, the New England missionary to the Indians. The letters, dated 1652......