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Pages From The Life Of John Sparling. Edited By His

Daughter, E. F. Cunliffe. (Riverside Press, Edinburgh.)—All autobio- graphies have an interest, if they are honestly written, and the honesty of this is manifest. Most readers......

The Story Of My Conversion. By The Late Abbe Corneloup.

Translated from the French by H. E. W. and M. M. (R.T.S. ls. 6d.)—"I am not entering into polemics, but simply telling how I was led to leave Rome and embrace Protestantism." So......

Belgian Life In Town And Country. By Demetrius C. Boulger.

(G. Newnes. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Boulger has, of course, many interesting things to tell us about Belgium and its people. It is a country in which the language difficulty is acute.......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Credentials of the Pentateuch. By the late John Sealy Townsend.......

We Have Received Three Monthly Numbers Of The Japan -...

(Tanuma Publishing Company, Yokohama and Tokio). The text of the declaration of war, the story of the previous negotia- tions, the despatches from the seat of war, narratives of......

The Customer's Guide To Banking. By Henry Warren. (grant...

6s.)—Mr. Warren, who wrote "How to Deal with Your Banker," now follows up the attack—what he says practically amounts to an attack—with the volume before us. It is a " guide to......

The Use Of Words. By Georgina Kinnear. (john Murray,...

is a praiseworthy effort to give an appreciable meaning to the " parts of speech," the technical terms of the early part of grammar, words to which the learner has much......

Memoirs And Travels Of Mauritius Augustus, Count De...

by Captain S. Pasfield Oliver. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—This is the fourth volume in the series of " Dryden House Memoirs." The Count Benyowsky crowded into......

Much About The Geography Of The Country As Any Man.

He traces the story of Tibetan exploration. It is interesting throughout, though of Lhasa there is little' to be said. No European has seen the place since 1846, when the French......