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Anglo-irish Literature. By- Hugh Law. (long- Mans....

is known to many as one of the most cultivated members of the Nationalist Party during the whole period of Redmond's leadership, and his book shows everywhere a knowledge not......

" The Tides Of Sixteen Hundred Years, Have Flowed, And

ebbed, - and flowed, And yet—I see the tossing spears "Come up the Roman Road "- d if you want to know the track it took ; if you want to ear of the Roman Military stations on......

Current . Literature

THE W$EK,: By F. H. .Cokoa. (Cambridge University ress. 5s.)—Mr. Colson opens tk discussion in this country n the origin and development of the seven-day cycle, subject that has......

- Eton College. By C. Hussey. (london; Country Life....

four years this illustrated account mainly of the buildings of Eton has been revised. The photographs of exteriors are excellent, those of interiors remarkably success- ful.......

On High Hills: Memories Of The Alps. By Offrey Winthrop.

Young. Illustrated. (Methuen. 18s.)— our philosopher condemns mountaineering as aimless toil, ad its votaries as persons of suicidal tendencies. Perhaps one can say exactly......

Year Books Of Edward Ii. Vol. Ix (1311). Edited For

the Selden Society by G.- J. Turner. (Quaritch.)— Forty years ago the Selden Society was founded to publish some of the unprinted materials for the history of English law, and,......

Primitive Italy. By Professor L6on Homo. Tran::- Lated...

French. (Kegan Paul. 18s.) : --The sub-title, "The Beginnings of Roman Imperialism," mirrors the contents of this able and scholarly work, which has sum- moned to its aid all......

Contemplation Of The Specialist. Captain Liddell Hart,...

conVe.ntion; resolved to make Scipio known to - the ordinary reader and to interpret his campaigns againit Carthage in terms of - Modern politics- and strategy. The resnit is an......

The Netherlands Display'd. By Marjorie Bowen. (the Bodky...

Bowen is the author of a number of historical novels dealing with the Netherlands, and now she has produced a portly book which purports to give the " atmosphere " of each of......