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State 'yelp For Agriculture. By Charles W. Tomkinson. (t....

Unwise. 3s. 6d, net.)—Mr. Tomkinson, who writes as a landowner with a practical knowledge of farming, regards import duties and bounties as dubious and uncertain methods of......

A New Part Of The Tenth And Last Volume Of

the Oxford English Dictionary contains the fifteen hundred and eighty main words from "Verificatory" to "Visor," edited by Dr. W. A. Croigio (Clarendon Press, 5s. net).......

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(Relics in flu column don Sot aseesserau products micemma recime.1 CODMilinity. By R. EL MacIver. (Macmillan and Co. 12s. net.)— Professor MacIver's " attempt to set out the......

An Question De L'alcool Alligations Et Rialitia. Par Yves...

(Paris Felix Alcan. 3 fr. 50 e.)—M. Yves Guyot in this interesting and highly controversial volume reviews the whole question of alcoholic liquor, in its physiological,......

Re.snantx Novels.—a Bolt From The Ewe. By G. F. Turner.

(Methuen and Co. 5s. net)—A semi-mystical novel concerning the doings at Biarritz and in London of a Rajput Rajah.---Under the Hermes. By Richard Behan. (W. Heinemann. Co.......

Russian Porta And Poems. Vol. I., " Classics." By Mme.

N. Jarintzov. (Oxford : B. H. Blackwell. 10a. 6d. not.)—Mme . Jarintzov has followed up her very able and stimulating book on the Russians and their language with this......

Freedom After Ejection. Edited By Alexander Gordon....

Co. and Manchester University Press. 15s. net.)—In this book is printed for the first time a review of the Presbyterian and Congregational Nonconformist congregations in England......

Fiction.

THE RED PLANET.* Ma. Locxx's new story of an English country town in war time. skilfully oonstruoted and worked out to a dramatic close, is notable as a study of a physical......