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The Book Of The Simple Way (philip Welby, 3s. 6d.

net) is a new translation from the text of Laotze's great book, with intro- duction and commentary by Walter Gorn Old. Laotze, whose work may be described as a treatise on......

A Short History Of Ancient Egypt. By Percy E. Newberry

and John Garstang. (A. Constable and Co. 3s. 6d.)—This is a quite admirable little book, containing in its hundred-odd pages as clear and sufficient an outline of Egyptian......

Ordered To China. Letters Of Wilbur J. Chamberlin....

Co. 6s.)—Mr. Chamberlin—the name is, strangely enough, spelt in two ways in the "Introductory Note "—went out as war correspondent for the New York Sun in the "Boxer" Rising and......

Bregant - Porcla And The Han - Weal. By Montagu Sharpe....

Company. Is.)—" Bregant-Forda " is in common speech" Brentford," and Mr. Sharpe's object is to show that the crossing of the Thames described by Caesar in V. 18 was at this......

The Ancient Capital Of Scotland.

The Ancient Capital of Scotland : the Story of Perth from the Invasion of Agricola to the Passing of the Reform Bill. By Samuel Cowan. 2 vols. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.......

The Cathedrals Of Northern France. By Francis Miltoun....

Blanche McManus. (T. Werner Laurie. 6s. net.) —By "Northern Prance" is meant, roughly speaking, that part of the country which lies north of a line drawn from the month of the......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for revWic in other forms.] The Assouan Reservoir and Lake Moeris. By Sir William Will- cocks,......

The Republic Of Ragusa. By Luigi Villari. (j. M. Dent

and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—Signor Villari explores this bypath of history very carefully and thoroughly. Ragusa, according to the more generally received opinion, occupies......