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Some Books Of The Week.

The Telephone and Telephone Exchanges, by J. E. Kingsbury (Longmans and Co., 12s. 6d. net), is an historical narrative of the invention and of its development. This narrative......

Fiction.

I POSE.* THE entrance of a new writer of undoubted talent into the arena of fiction is a welcome incident at all times, and Miss Benson's talent is beyond question. But while......

The Northern Bantu, By John Romeo (cambridge University...

6d. net), gives an anthropological account of half-a dozen of the less important tribes in the Uganda Protectorate. The information provided in the book is all derived from......

The Story Of Julia Page. By Kathleen Norris. (john Murray.

6s.)—We feel sure that Mrs. Norris's latest novel is the result of most careful work. It is well written, very long, considered in every detail. Yet it somehow just fails to......

Readable Novels.—anne Of The Island. By L. M. Mont- Gomery.

(Sir Team Pitman and Sons. 6s.)--Lovers of Anne will be delighted at her reappearance; this book tells of her college Life, and of her engagement to Gilbert Blythe.— The Banner......

Professor W. M. Lindsay In His Nokte Latinae (cambridge...

Press, 21s, net) has given an exhaustive account of abbreviation in Latin manuscripts of the early minuscule period. " The project," he tells us in his preface, " has been......

Sport, Travel, And Adventure, Edited By A. C. Lewis (t.

Fisher Unwin, 10s. Cd. net), may best be described as an anthology of hairbreadth escapes. The editor has collected and grquped under appr pria,te headings a number of accounts......

Nzav Enrrsons.—dr. Holland Rose's Tv Illiam Pitt And...

has been reissued in a cheaper form (G. Bell and Sons, 7s. Gd. net), It is a history of the life of the younger Pitt down to the time of the beginning of the friction between......