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Great Victorians. By T. H. S. Escott. (t. Fisher Unwin.

12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Escott has known so many eminent people and remembers so many anecdotes about them that his discursive books are always readable. In this new volume he flits,......

The Girl And The Faun. By Eden Phillpotts. (palmer And

Hayward. 6s. not.)—This is a pleasant fantasy of an immortal faun who loved a mortal maiden and was scorned by her, but nevertheless served her faithfully since Pan would not......

Austria-hungary And The Slays. (h. Howes And Co. 6d.)—an...

of the persecutions of the Jugoslays by their Austro-Magyar conquerors and detailed reports of the more important of the political trials that took place between the years......

Our Wattles. By Tulle C. Wollaston. (melbourne : Lothian...

Publishing Co. London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 5s. net.)—The wattle or acacia blossom, as every one knows, has been selected as the national emblem of Australia. This......

.rydal By The Late Miss Armitt. Edited By W. F.

Rawnsley. (Kendal : Titus Wilson. 12s. 6d. net.)—The little village in the Lake Country, charming in itself and associated always in literature with Wordsworth, De Quincey, and......

Charles Frohman, Manager And Man. By Isaac F. Marcosson And

Daniel Frohman. (John Lane. 12s. 6d. net)—However keenly interested we may be in the drama, it is difficult to deny that there is something particularly sordid and distasteful......

The Literary History Of Spanish America. By Alfred...

millan and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—Europe has hoard of the Cuban poets Heredia and Flacido, but knows little about Spanish-American authors in general. This book is a carefully......

Mr. A. C. Berrien Puts His Name On The Title-page

of the second edition of Father Payne (Smith, Elder, and Co., 7s. 6d. net), which was issued anonymously. He says in his preface that he likes to publish his books in this way,......

Absolutisms„ Croatia. By R. W. Seton-watson. (constable...

indictment of Austro-Hungarian methods of governing the Slays, based on letters to the Spectator and other journals, originally appeared in 1912, and the bulk of it, curiously......