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Mn. Percy White Has For Some Time Past Claimed Attention

as an alert and entertaining delineator of the vagaries, foibles, and extravagances of smart society. To call him a social satirist would be to overshoot the mark, for his......

An Act In A Backwater. By E. F. Benson. (w.

Heinemann. 6s.)—Mr. Benson has given us a slight but pleasing study df life in a small Cathedral town. The brother and sister of a poor nobleman settle there, and introduce a......

Sketches On The Old Road Through France To Florence. By

A. H. Hallam Murray. Accompanied by H. W. Nevinson and Montgomery Carmichael. (J. Murray. 912. net.)—There have been so many books published lately with beautiful illustra-......

England: A Nation. Being The Papers Of The Patriots' Club.

Edited t"by Lucian Oldershaw. (R. Brimley Johnson. 3s. 6d. net.)—These nine essays should be read with sympathy, for their authors are 'very much in earnest, and feel with......

• And Co. 3s. 6d.)—the Campaigns Of General Nathan Bedford

'orrest give many a fine opportunity for romance, for the leader was one of the most memorable personalities in a great epodh, and civil war, waged as he waged it, brought into......

England In Egypt. By Viscount Milner, G.c.b. Eleventh...

Additions Summarising the Course of Events to the Year 1904. (Edward Arnold. 6s.)-1 new edition of Lord Milner's book is a proof of the widespread interest which Egyptian......