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Spencer's Descriptive Sociology, No. Il Ancient...

W. Flinders Petrie. (Williams and Norgate. 25s. net.) THESE treasuries of information upon racial customs and beliefs are invaluable to the student of history, sociology, or......

There Are Six Pamphlets Here, All Of Them Rare And

three reprinted for the first time. Dekker was a journalist. Only those who worship the Elizabethans indiscriminately could find anything of greatness in him that was more than......

The Odyssey. Translated By Sir William Marris. (milford....

net.) TRANSLATORS still argue viciously over the metre into which Homer would be best translated. Sir William Marris's choice of blank verse as his medium seems to us the most......

Fiction

MAKING FUN OF SPIRITS Summer. By Ladislas Reymont. (Jerrold. 7s. 6d.) FATHER KNox's novel, Other Eyes than Ours, is frankly a satire, and pursues its purpose as undeviatingly as......

Three "how-to " Booklets.—messrs. Hodder And Stoughton...

congratulated on publishing Lord Apsley's Why and flow I went to Australia as a Settler (price 3d.), and the author is to be doubly congratulated on the scheme he so......