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The History Of China Is Not Easily Accessible Except Upon

a very elaborate scale. Dr. Herbert H. Gowen's Outline History of China in two volumes (T. Werner Laurie, 10s. net) should therefore prove useful. The first volume takes the......

Books Of Reference.—we Have Received A Copy Of That Most

useful work, Walford's County Families (Spottiswoode and Co., £2 100.), which has now arrived at its fifty-fifth year of publication.—There has also reached us a new edition......

New Editions.—we Are Glad To Notice A Second Edition Of

Mr. Alfred E. Zimmern's The Greek Commonwealth (Clarendon Press, Ss. 6d. net).—A new edition has appeared of Staunton's Chess-Player's Handbook (G. Bell and Sons, 68. net). This......

Mr. Will Dyson's Work As A Cartoonist First Became Popular

in the Socialist paper, the Daily Herald, now published weekly as the Herald. He has lately been sharpening his pencil into a sword, and instead of Cosmopolitan Capitalism be......

Economic Cycles : Their Law And Cause, By Henry Ludwell

Moore (Macmillan and Co., 8s. 6d. net), discusses, as its title suggests, those large rhythmic economic changes which have long puzzled economists. The author, who holds the......

The "cambridge Bible For Schools And Colleges " Is Now

almost completed by the appearance of an excellent edition of Leviticus (Cambridge University Press, 35. net), begun by the late Rev. A. T. Chapman and completed by Dr. A. W.......

As Lord Northbrook Observes In His Preface To Agriculture :

Theoretical and Practical (Crosby Lockwood and Son, 6s. net), there is still room for a trustworthy text-book on mixed farm- ing. The authors of this work are well-known experts......

The North-eastern Railway Has The Reputation Of Being One Of

the most efficiently managed of our great trunk lines. It has, moreover, a long tradition behind it, since the Stockton and Darlington line was one of the elements out of which......

The Problems Of The Nature And Causation Of Sex Are

among the most doubtful which confront biologists. Dr. L. Doncaster in his new volume on The Determination of Sex (Cambridge University Press, 7s. 6d. net) does not profess to......

A Number Of Obscure Passages From The Works Of Shakespeare

are discussed by Mr. Charles D. Stewart in SOME Textual Difficulties in Shakespeare (Humphrey Milford, for the Yale University Press, 6s. net). Those who have studied the......