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Where The Twain Meet. By Mary Gaunt. (murray. 15s. Net.)

" Perhaps in a former life," writes Mrs. Gaunt, " I, too, 'was a slave " ; and this consideration has filled her with sympathy for the negroes and half-breeds of Jamaica. She......

Finance-public & Private.

By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. SOME FAVOURABLE FACTORS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The New Year began well on the Stock Exchange and prices have risen a little in most......

A Modern Dictionary Of The English Language. (macmillan....

net.) This dictionary, wholly " free from all objectionable words and meanings," will, in every way, meet the requirements of Secondary and Elementary Schools. Modem words and......

Dr. Greaves, Who Is Professor Of Agricultural...

Agricultural College, has been guided in writing this useful work by the needs of his students. We cannot here discuss its technical merits, but so far as we have tested it we......

The Queen's Minister. By E. M. Smith-dampier. (melrose.....

A play written from the slightly sardonic standpoint it is now customary to take up with regard to Victorian characters and episodes—a symptom of priggishness, perhaps ? The......

-footprints In Spain. By Lieut.-col. H. A. Newell....

6d.) Though its author has tried to cast this volume in the form of personal record, it is a guide-book rather than a book of travel. When he condescends to take us into his......

From Switzerland To The Mediterranean On Foot. By J. B.

Winter. (Laurie. 5s.) This is an entertaining though often naïf account of an out-of-season, out-of-the-way tramp by two experienced pedestrians. The book is profusely decorated......

The Greatest American : Alexander Hamilton. By Arthur...

(Putnam's. 12s. 6d.) This is an interesting book and an annoying one. It is interesting not only for the Hamilton material which it includes, but also because he who reads......

This Is A Pleasant Volume Of Collected Essays, The Work

of an experienced hand. The essays are gathered under four headings—" Landmarks," " Prejudices," Adventures," and " Books ' —and the contents list is very inviting, for Mr.......

Ski-ing Turns. By Vivian Caulfeld. (nisbet. 8s. 6d. Net.)

A detailed description of an important branch of ski-ing technique that will appeal to the expert as well as instruct the learner. Turns are used sparingly, as the good skier......