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Homer. By J. W. Mackail. (hammersmith Publishing Company....

net.)—Professor Mackail delivered this lecture last March "on behalf of the Independent Labour Party." A. good many things have happened since then, but with the general result......

Expositions Of Holy Scripture. By Alexander Maclaren,...

"St. Matthew 9-16." (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. Gd.) —These "expositions" are chiefly homiletic, aiming at edification rather than interpretation. It is true that they are not......

The Cruise Of The Conquistador.' By G. Sidney...

Car illustrated. 35. 6d.)—It was unfortunately only too obvious that the motor pirate would some day come to life again, and in this book he appears as the owner of a motor......

Novels.

HYACINTH.* OF the political novels published in recent years, few have com- pared in interest with The Seething Pot, in which the various contending forces at work in the......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the weak as have not bus reserved for review in other forme.] Reproach to Civilization. By E. F. G. Hatch. (Waterlow and Sons. Is.......

Traffic. By E. Temple Thurston. (duckworth And Co. Os.)— It

is seldom one meets with a book so wholly disagreeable as this novel. The subject is one of almost unrelieved gloom, and the reader is not spared the most disgusting physical......

Current Literature.

A HISTORY OF MODERN ENGLA.ND. A History of Modern England. By Herbert Paul. In 5 vols. Vol. IV. (Macmillan and Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—We wish that we could persuade Mr. Paul to work......