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The Monks Of Westminster, By Archdeacon E. H. Pearce. (cam-

bridge University Press. 10s. net.)—This scholarly book is a register of the monks from Edward the Confessor's day to the Dissolution. It has been compiled from the wonderfully......

Fiction.

NOTHING MATTERS.* Warrsx thisvolume—the proceeds of the sale of which go to the-Actors' Emergency War Fund—by no means represents Sir Herbert Tree's pritnitiae in the domain of......

Readable Novms.—families Repaired. By J. S. Fletcher....

6s.)—A social novel dealing with pre-war conditions. Afraid. By Sidney Dark. (John Lane. 6s.)—A rather painful story of a coward and his redemption.—Jimmy's Wife. By Jessie......

A Naturalist In Borneo. By The Late R. W. G.

Mefferd. (r. Fisher Unwin. 15s. net.)— The author, who died young in 1912, was Cu= tor of the Sarawak Museum before settling down at the Oxford Museum as Assistant-Curator under......

Highways And Byways In Nottinghamshire. By J. B. Firth....

millan and Co. 6s. net.)—To an excellent series this is a most readable addition. Mr. Firth writes well and has accumulated a mass of curious information. The chapters on......

The Nation's Health : The Stamping Out Of Venereal Disease.

By Sir Malcolm Morris. (Cassell and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—As a member of the Royal Commission, Sir Malcolm Morris has written this admirable little book to drive home the lessons of......

The Dancing Hours. By Harold Ohlson. (john Lane. 6s.)— This

very delightful story of an innocent adventuress should be read by every one who wishes for en hour's entertainment in which to forget the war. Jane, the heroine, is a most......

Some Books Of The Week.

Wales in this column does not nwessirily przzia13 su)ss12132 The English Catalogue of Boolei. Vol. IX., 1911-15. (Publishers' Circular. 5 guineas net.)—Mr. R. B. Marston is to......

Church And Reform In Scotland : A History From 1797

to 1843. By W. L. Mathieson. (Glasgow: MacLehose. 10s. 6d. net.)—This is the final volume of Mr. Mathieson's very able history of Scotland from the Reformation. Its two main......