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The Serious Student Of Palestine Will Find In This Solid

and authoritative book a vast quantity of well-digested fact.......

We Have More Than Once Referred To The Remarkable Survey

of the Gold Coast, on a scale of two miles to an inch, which is being made by the Colonial authorities and published by Messrs. W. and A. K. Johnston. A new sheet, for the......

By Road From Cheltenham To Oxford. By W. J. Monk.

(Published by the Author, Stonefield, Burford. 2s. 6d.) By Road from Cheltenham to Oxford. By W. J. Monk. (Published by the Author, Stonefield, Burford. 2s. 6d.) Mr. Monk, who......

Contemporary English Woodcuts. With An Introduction By...

42s. net.) The widespread revival of wood engraving in England led us to expect the present volume to be of exceptional interest. It is disappointing. The selection does not......

M Odern Wireless. Vol. I., No. 1. (3 Bolt Court, E.c.

4. Is.) .A sudden acceleration in the popularity of broadcasting coincides with the appearance of this well-timed monthly. Modern Wireless will interest the experimentalist, the......

At Home And Abroad.

An account of the mountain tribes in the Burmese Hinter- land, in particular the Kachins, a hill-people who occupy the north-east frontier of Burma. Up to 1895 only punitive......

Animals Of All Countries. Part I. (hutchinsons. Is. 3d....

Outlines of science, art and literature are rife, but this copiously illustrated account of the living animals of the world should hold its own among them. Its interest is......

Periodicals And Books Of Reference.

The March number contains some admirable articles, temperate but always candid, on the several aspects of the Peace that has not brought tranquillity. The French policy towards......

Chambers's Encyclopaedia. Vol. I. New Edition. Edited By...

and William Geddes. (Chambers. 20s. net.) The familiar and trusty Chambers, which has served several generations of readers, is appearing in a new and very much improved edition......

Natural History.

Richard Jefferies would have enjoyed these delightful informal Nature studies. The very artlessness and simplicity of style, coupled with exact observation and nicety of detail;......

The Topography Of Stane Street. By Captain W. A. Grant.

(Long. Ss. net.) Captain Grant, writing as a military surveyor of experience with a good knowledge of the ground, subjects Mr. Belloc's well-known book on Stane Street to a......

Eight Chapters On English Mediaeval Art. By E. S. Prior.

(Cambridge University Press. 6s. net.) Ever since the publication of his History of Gothic Art in England in 1900 Professor Prior has been known as the cham- pion of English......

Oxford University Press General Catalogue, 1922. (h....

the third edition of the Oxford catalo e gue, which comprises a wonderful array of good books on all subjects and shows that the Clarendon Press is conducted with enter- prise......