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We Gladly Acknowledge The Seasonable Appearance Of• A New...

of the Far Eastern region, upon which the public attention is now fixed. This is Stanford's Map of Eastern China, Japan, and Korea (3s. & 5s.) It clearly illustrates the......

The Life And Public Services Of Simon Sterne. By John

Foord. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Simon Sterne was a conspicuous example of a maxim, true of every civilised country, but specially true of the United States, that many of the......

The Baronet In Corduroy. By Albert Lee. (grant Richards....

story is told by a humble friend of the heroine, the scene being laid in the early days of the eighteenth century. It is, indeed, in the Sacheverell riots that the heroine makes......

Railways. By E. R. Mcdermott. (methuen And Co. 2s. 61.

net.)—Mr. McDermott writes on a subject with which he is thoroughly well acquainted, and gives us in this volume, which is one of the "Books on Business" Series, information on......

Borlase And Son. By T. Baron Russell. (john Lane. Os.)—

The business novel is no longer a new departure in fiction, but it is only lately that the business of a retail shop, as distinguished from the business of "stocks and shares,"......

Hoods. Mr. Sykes Is Anxious, It Would Seem, To Show

us, not exactly the squalor, for the word would not be appropriate, but the meanness of the life of the wealthy. His hero is a young Peer, the son of an ennobled millionaire. He......

The Stronger Claim. By Alice Perrin. (eveleigh Nash. 6s.)...

Perrin takes as the theme of her story the effect of going back to India on a boy of Eurasian birth who has been brought up at an English publib school, and who is in ignorance......