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Initiation. By Robert Hugh Benson. (hutchinson And Co....

the antagonism between the Anglican and the Roman Catholic Churches in England is , not the principal theme of Monsignor Benson's novel. Indeed, the "initiation" of the title......

The Power Of Ideals In American History. By Ephraim D.

Adams. (Yale University Press. 81.15 net.)—The motto of the Leland Stanford Junior University, in which Dr. Adams is Professor of History, is "Die Luft der •Freihelt weht "—the......

Readable Notzlel- , - A Boman Picture. By Paul Waine-...

Co. 6s.)—An.exceedingly romantic and somewhat obvious love story, in .a setting of modern Rome. —The -Word of Tereger. By Guy Ridley. (J. Nisbet. and Co. 2e. net.)—These......

John Bull, Limited. By G. W. Hills. (philadelphia. 2s....

"fragmentary record of a pleasant sojourn 'in Albion" was written-to please the author's daughter, to Whom —as "the only girl on earth "—it is dedicated. Mr. Hills does not much......

A Lady Of Leisure. By Ethel Sidgwick. (sidgwick And Jackson.

6s.)—Miss Sidgwick's new book at first makes one feel like a mere acquaintance present at an intimate family gathering; we are interested in what the people say, but we cannot,......

—how Fast The Making Of Books Increases As The Years

go oml That is the first thought whioh occurs to one in handling the new catalogue of that meritorious institution the London Library. The last catalogue, published in 1903, was......

The Myths Of Mexico And Peru. Bylewis Spence. (g. G.

Harrap and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Macaulay tells us of a 'Frenah writer who published a ,grave history of a particular period, and then supplemented it by a novel, in which le set......

Some -books Of The.. Week.

[Mae this hmding Aes natio. such &mks .qf flu via is halm nor iwn merged for ,.visa in other farms.] The Evidence for Communication with the Dead. By Anna Rude. (T. Fisher......