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How I Helped To Govern India.

A Fly on the Wheel; or, How I Helped to Govern India. By Lieut.-Col. Thomas H. Lewin. (Constable and Co. 6s. net.)— We are glad to welcome a second edition (after thirty years)......

The Formation Of The Alphabet.

The Formation of the Alphabet. By W. M. Flinders Petrie. (Macmillan and Co. Oa net.)—Recent discoveries in the field of epigraphy, and especially the excavations of Professor......

The Life Of Nelson.

The Life of Nelson. By Geoffrey Callender, B.A., R.N. College, Osborne. (Longmans and Co. ls. 6d.)—The Nelson epic will always bear re-telling by so gifted a writer as Mr.......

Tee Loss Of The

The Loss of the Titanic.' By Lawrence Beesley. (W. Heine- mann. 3s. 6d. net.)—When the first cabled accounts of the wreck of the ' Titanic ' reached England after the arrival of......

Two New Editions Of Shakespeare.

The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by William Shakespeare. Edited by Sydney Humphries. (A. and C. Black. 108. net.)—The primary test of the value of a new......

A Year And A Day.

A Year and a Day. By Olive Christian Malvery (Mrs. Archi- bald Mackirdy). (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—From the literary point of view Mrs. Maekirdy's book, A Year and a Day, must......