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Vladimir Soloviev, The Well-known Russian Philosopher,...

and died in 1909. Towards the end of his life he wrote a series of three dialogues upon War, Progress, and the End of History, which have now been translated into English by Mr.......

The Man Of Iron. By Richard Deban. (william Heine- Mann.

6s.)--" Richard Dehan " in the preface to her latest book makes apology for her choice of subject. "The Germany of 1870," she says, "was not the Germany of 1915. . . . The plan......

With The Hot Weather The Fly Is Once More Among

us, and, according to the medical authorities, is likely to be more dangerous than ever this year in its disease-spreading habits. Major Hurlstone Hardy's Book of the Fly......

The Stationery Of F Ice Has Issued A Volume Of Collected...

Documents relating to the Outbreak of the European War. It includes a reprint of the British White Paper, together with the official translations of the French Yellow Book, the......

Richard Rolle Of Hampole Was A Fourteenth-century Hermit,...

mystic, whose writings in Middle English have received considerable attention. He also wrote a number of Latin treatises, but none of these has been reprinted in modern times.......

Cornwall Is Among The Most Picturesque Of English...

only on account of its scenery, but also on account of the legends of its past. Mr. J. Henry Harris in Cornish Saints and Sinners (John Lane, 2s. 8d. net) has profited by this......

In The Law Of Contract During War (william Hodge And

Co., 15e. net) Mr. W. F. Trotter has made an attempt to discuss the effect of war upon contract, with special reference to present circumstances. Mr. Trotter gives full reports......

New Enrrzoces.—a Second Edition Bee Appeared, With A New...

but with no other changes, of Mr. Havelock Ellis's volume of essays, Affirmations (Constable and Co., 6s. net). It was originally published in 1897, and contains papers upon......

Some Books Of The Week.

[&ties m Mi. nisinn don nal Immoral/ yrsstude subsopisni mina.] The Jane number of the Bound Table has just been pub- lished (Macmillan and Co., 2s. 6d.). Its first article,......

A Short History Of Belgium And Holland, By Alexander Young

(T. Fisher Cowin, 5s. net), is he reality a new edition of a book published as long ago as 1886 under the title of A Short History of the Netherlands. The last chapter has been......

Rzansiaas Novels.—the Adventure, Of Cigarette. By John...

and Sons. 6s.)—Mr. Roland's stories of mystery and adventure on the road are full of vigour and open-air freshness ; their period is un- eertain.—Whiripool Heights. By Julia......

Booze Of Refeaence.—the 1915 Edition Of That Most...

of reference, Crockford'e Clerical Directory (The Field and Queen, Ltd., 26s.), has just reached us. Among the subjects mentioned in the preface to the new issue are Prayer Book......