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Dr. Emslie Hutton's Story Of Her Adventures With A Woman's

Tint in Serbia, Salonika, and Sebastopol (Williams and Norgate, 12s. (id.) is put together from letters and diaries written in the intervals of hard and often dangerous hospital......

Among The Delightfully Compact Benn's Sixpenny Series We...

three recent volumes written by- experts in their own subjects. They are . The Islamic' Faith, by , Sir Thomas Arnold, The English Language, by Prof. Ernest Weekley, and......

Mr. Brett's Very Readable And Thought-provoking Book On...

15s.) is not intended, he telli_ us, tie a description of the life and times of the iron Duke: ' No battles are described in it• ' • no political issues explained. The writer......

Twenty-five Years , As Archbishop Of Canterbury (wells...

by Mr. Herbert, is .not free from some of the signs of book-making. This defect, however, need not prevent the book from winning a large public. It is opportune. It gives all......

Even The Artificial Eighteenth Century Bred Its Passion...

the most unfading of these is the exquisite story of Marion Lem-aut. Suddenly written by that indifferent churchman and zealous translator of Richardson, l'Abbe Prevost des......

Anyone Who Cares For Old Silver Should Not Fail To

secure the admirable Catalogue of the loan exhibition of silver plate belonging to the Oxford colleges which was held last term (Clarendon Press, 10s. 6d.). The colleges loyally......

Sir Josiah Stamp Contributes A Lively Opening Chapter To Mr.

W. V. Wood's instructive little book on Railways in the Home University Library (Thornton Butterworth, 2s.). Sir Josiah points out that the railway companies have conferred......

As Long Ago As The Roman Occupation Of Britain, According

to a " medicine stamp " which was recently discovered, a " Golden Ointment to clear the sight " was sold by a quack called Junianus to his patients of Bath, probably much the......

Answers To. Questions On Woman

1. Pope, Moral Essays (ep. ii., 1. 215).-2. Addison, Caw (act iv., se. 1).-3. Byron, Don Juan (can. v., st. 113). 4. Shakespeare, King Lear (act ii., sc. 4).-5. Byron, Don Juan......