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Our Benevolent Feudalism. By W. J. Ghent. (macmillan And Co.

5s. net.)—Mr. Ghent is writing about matters in the United States. If what he says of the present is true, and if he makes a correct prognostication of the future, the......

Current . Literature.

THE QUARTERLIES. The most interesting article in the new Quarterly is the first, " - Ireland from Within," and if inspired, it is one of unusual ' importance, for its drift is......

Golden String. Arranged By Susan, Countess Of...

Brooke-Hunt. (John Murray. 5s. net.)—It is difficult to estimate the absolute value of a book of extracts. Many are published every year, and it is beyond the powers of any......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been swerved for reuiew in other forms.] Horae Semiticae, I. - IL ((3. J. Clay and Sons. 15s. net.)—These two......

Dition Under The Command Of General Sir J.. Willoocks As

war correspondent for Black and White. The illustrations of the volume are from photographs, not of very good quality (" The Last Shots" facing p. 78 should be excepted). The......

In The Series Of Devotional Books Entitled "little Books On

Religion," edited by W. Robertson Nicoll, LL.D. (Hodder and Stoughton), we have The Three Things that Abide, by Sir W. T. Ganglier (1s. 6d.) ; in "The Christian Study Manuals,"......

The Indian Mutiny : A Selection Of Papers Preserved In

the Military Department of the Government of India. Vols. IL and III. Edited by G. W. Forrest, C.I.E. (Military Department Press, Calcutta.)—Mr. FOrrest's plan has been to......

A Volume Of Verse.

Mr. Le veson Gower's Poems (W. Heinemann, 7s. 6d.) afford agree- able evidence of wide culture allied- to considerable command of versification. True, he does not embark on any......

Story Of The Vine. By Edward R. Emerson.- (g. P.

Putnam's Sons. 5s. net.)—Mr. Emerson has taken much trouble to gather the materials for this book, and has done good service to the public in bringing it out. He gives us a......