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After Reading The Motives Of Proteus, By Jose E. Bodo

(Allen and Unwin, 16s.), which now appears in English for the first time, some twelve years after his death, One feels strongly that the peculiar greatness of the Spanish races......

Professor Cannan Is Pre-eminent Among Our Economists For...

views and his clear and attractive style no less than for his wide learning. All these qualities distin- *sh his new volume, A . Review of .Economic Theory (P. S. mg, 16s.), in......

The Soviet Government Has Recently Produced A Film Of The

Solovetsky island prison in the White Sea, representing it as a somewhat luxurious health resort. What this horrible place really is may be learned from the account of Mr. Boris......

- A Library List

MISCELLANEOUS :-The New Despotism. By Rt. Hon. Lord Hewart. (Bean. 21s.) By Way of Introduction. By A. A. Milne. (Methuen. 6s.) Translation of the Holy Qur-An. By A. H. G - .......

Miss E. E. Helme's Book, Down The Stream (religious Tract

Society, 5s.), makes one realize the improvement which has taken place in Nature books for boys and girls during the last forty years. Miss Helme writes well ; her life-story of......

County Patriotism Is A Fine Thing, And Any Help That

can further its maintenance or increase its fervour we are delighted to give. Therefore it is that we are glad once more to call attention to another in the long line of......

More Books Of The Week (continued From Page 632)

* * * * In Letters from Italy (Besant and. Co., as. 6d.) Mr- Karel Capek has given us another entertaining volume of impressions. His pictures are drawn with an engaging humour,......

Dr. Francis Miller, The Well-known Historian, Has...

in the preparation of Lindbergh-: his Story in Pictures (10s. 6d.), and Messrs. Putnams must be congratulated on publishing this pictorial record of an achievement which will......

Some Years Ago Professor S. Angus, Of Sydney, Wrote A

very able book on the mystery religions which preceded Christianity. He now treats of the whole historical background of the early Church in an impressive treatise on The......