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The Founding Of Spanish California. By C. E. Chapman....

and Co. 15s. net.)—This interesting book, written by a travelling scholar of the University of California from a study of the Spanish documents at Seville, describes fully and......

Fiction. -

THE SETONS.• PLEASANT memories of " O. Douglas's" first book, Olivia in India, encouraged the hope of further favours from her pen, and they have been more than fulfilled in The......

Readable Novels.—her Wedding Night. By Max Pemberton....

series of sketches, of which the first is the most interesting. It is a spy story of life in Brussels.— Come In. By Ethel Colburn Mayne. (Chapman and HalL 6s.)— The first story......

Some Books Of The Week.

Wolice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsepteal testes Taz JANUARY MONTHLIES.—The Nineteenth Century publishes an interesting and thoughtful ode in blank verse, "......

Works Of Reference.—debretg'e Peerage For 1918, Edited By...

M. Hesilrige (Dean, 45s. net), has to record an unusual number of changes and additions, arising mainly out of the war, from the alteration in the name of the Royal House and......