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The War In Africa And The Far East. By H.

C. O'Neill. (Longmans. 3s. &I. net.)—Mr. O'Neill has summarized very clearly the course of the useful and important " aide-shows " in which all the German colonies in Africa and......

A History Of Spain. By C. E. Chapman. (macmillan. Ha.

net.)—This compact and readable history of Spain, from pre. Roman times to the present day, is based mainly on a popular Spanish work by Senor Altamim, but the chapters on the......

In The March Number Of The Reese Internationale De La

Croix. Rouge, the new official organ of the Red Cross movement at Geneva, the Japanese delegate, Dr. Ninagawa, urges that a new International Convention should be signed so as......

The Manchester Guardian Published On Saturday Last A...

of Nations " supplement, containing articles by Lord Bryce, H. Albert Thomas, Lord Shaw, Lord Haldane, Dr. Hansen, Mr. Clutton-Brock, and others, with the text of the draft,......

Woaws Us Refehence.—debrett ' S House Of Commons And The...

1919, edited by A. G. M. Heselrige (Dean, 15s. net), gives a very full account of the new House, except the Sins Fein members, some of whom evidently prefer obscurity to......

Joseph Shove. By Stephen Holhouse. (dent. 4s. 6d. Net.)...

Ferrovius, the redoubtable Christian in Mr. Shaw's play, Androcles and the Lion, Joseph &urge, the eminent Quaker of the " eighties," was troubled by a peppery temper which on......

Some Books Of The Week.

(Notice in this column dxs not necessarily ' , stelae stamp.' ruins.] THE Aram MONTH:LIM—The first place in the Nineteenth Century is given to an article on "The British Empire......

The Ministry• Of Reconstruction Has Issued Two New...

one explaining The Whitley Scheme for Industrial Councils and the other describing what has been done for the State Regulation of Wages, before and during the war. "The question......

The Reconstruction Of Russia. Edited By Sir Paul...

University Press. Is. 6d. net.)—The four essays in this little pamphlet deserve very serious consideration. They traverse the view that " the self-determination of peoples " is......