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Dr. Finney Is Fond Of His Panaceas, But His Enthusiasm

is certainly intelligent enough to save them from dullness. He analyses all the evils of social and economic affairs in the United States, making, as his p A ublisher says, " a......

It Certainly Impoverished This Anthology To Exclude From...

old carols and Christmas ballads ; and the nineteenth century has more than four times the space given to the seventeenth. The earlier pages, however, are well selected, and......

Finance-public & Private.

By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. THE FINANCIAL OUTLOOK. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srn,—So far as Finance and Commerce are concerned, the two outstanding features of the year which is......

Worcestershire. By F. T. S. Houghton. (methuen. 6s. Net.) We

know no guide-books that are more useful, handy and accurate than the " Little Guides," and the new volume on Worcestershire is as good as any of its predecessors. Mr. Houghton......

A Sunday School In Utopia. By The Rev. E. F.

Braley. (Macmillan. 5s. net.) As a sign that the Sunday School movement is recognizing the need for its teachers to be adequately equipped in the science and art of an......

A Lady's Maid In Downing Street. By Auguste Schluter....

Unwin. 7s. 6d. net.) This naive diary, written by a maid to Gladstone's daughter, is chiefly interesting, not for the information it gives us about " My beloved Lady " and " Our......

Major Street Has Followed Up His Account Of Ireland In

1920 with a clear and dispassionate history of the following year. It is a most painful book, but it should be widely read. In Major Street's pages we see the Nemesis that......