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Some Notes On Shakespeare's Stage And Plays. By William...

(Longmans and Co. Is. net.)—The Director of the Elizabethan Stage Society summarizes in this lecture, delivered at the John Rylands Library, his well-known theory that " the......

Le Strange Records. By Hamon Le Strange.. (longmans And Co.

21e. net.)—This scholarly book, which is very unlike the uncritical family histories of the past and present, contains a detailed and docu- mented account of the early Le......

Lord Lyons. By Lord Newton. (t. Nelson And Sons. Ls.

3d. net.) —We are glad to see a cheap edition of this very important book. Our Government's attempt to avert the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 by proposing a simultaneous......

The Life And Letters Of The Ri. Lion. Sir Charles

Tupper. By E. M. Saunders. (Cassell and Co. 25s. net.)—Sir Charles Tupper in the course of his long life--from 1821 to 1915—saw Canada develop from a tew scattered provinces......

The Swedish Government Have Issued An English Translation...

Historical and Statistical Handbook of Sweden, published in two parts. Part I. deals with " Land and People," and Part II. with "Industries." The work is profusely illustrated.......

The Ancient City. By Fustel De Coulanges. Translated By...

Small. (Simpkin and Marshall. 7s. 6d.)—It is strange that the brilliant essay on Greek and Roman institutions with which Festal de Coulanges first made his reputation half a......

Catalogue Of Scientific Paws : Fourth Series (1884-1900)....

by the Royal Society. Vol. XV., "Fitting--Hyslop." (Cam- bridge University Press. f2 1064—The Royal Society's great author- catalogue of the world's scientific papers for......

A Torkahire Cookery-book.—a Number Of Recipes For...

very economical dishes (there is a variety of war cakes and eggless cakes) have been collected by Miss Milne. Gaskell, chiefly from Yorkshire housewives, and printed in book......

A Glossary Of Botanic Terms. By B. D. Jackson (duckworth

and Co. 7s. 611. net.)—This excellent glossary, by the Secretary of the Litusean Society, appears in a third and revised edition. The nomenclature of botany is so great a......

Speech Of M. E. Renizelos To The People, August 27th,

1916. (Anglo- Hellenic League, 43 Aldwych, W.C. 3d.)—Many of our readers will doubtless be glad to have the full text, in Greek and English, of M. Venizelos's fine address to......

Tobacco Monopoly In France, Italy, Austria, Japan, Spain,...

The author has no difficulty in showing, by moans of a great array of official statistics, that a tobacco monopoly is less profitable to ths State than a tobacco duty, and that......