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The Growing Number Of Students Of Russian May Be Glad

to know of a new Grammar of the Russian Language compiled by a competent scholar, Mr. Leonard Magnus (John Murray, 5s. net), and of a Practical Pocket Dictionary of the Russian......

Some Books Of The Week.

(Notice in this column doss eel necessarily preclals su)sepua: reeked British Incomes and Property. By J. C. Stamp. (P. S. King. 12s. Gd. net.)—It would be a refinement of......

Freedom's Battle. By J. F. Worsley Boden, .m.a. (hugh Roes.

2s. Gd. net.)—A reprint of a number of "historical essays occasioned by the Great War." Of special interest is " A Plea for Nationality." " The true nationality," says......

Nnw Enmox.—a Companion To Greek Studies. Edited By L....

(Cambridge University Press. 21s. net.)—This monument of scholarship, so vastly different from anything obtainable a quarter of a century ago, has reached a third edition, in......

The South Downs. By "a Tramp."—a Practical Little Guide To

the South Downs, published by the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, and to be obtained at London Bridge Station (is. 3d. and 7d.). The descriptive notes are......

The Battle Of Flowers. By Mrs. H. De Vero Stacpoole.

(Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—Mrs. Stacpoole has cultivated a style of writing which is hard, precise, and unattractive. She will have no pleasant unoer- tainty in her book, no......

Books Of Reference. — The Foreign Office List, 1916....

10s. 6d. net.)—Here are recorded, as usual, particulars of the men and stations under control of the Foreign Office in London and in the Diplomatic and Consular Services abroad,......

Fiction.

RICHES AND HONOUR.* THERE are very few parts of the globe with which we have not been familiarized by novelists within the last thirty or forty years. Tho romantic literature of......