The Divine Origin Of The Craft Of The Herbalist (society
of Herbalists, Culpepper House, 7 Baker Street, 5s.) is a little book full of cut-of-the-way information. Sir Wallis Budge, .the author, .has extracted many delightful recipes......
In T.p.'s Weekly, Mr. H. G. Wells Begins His New
novel The Open Conspiracy. The bits' we are given suffer, we imagine, from_ the editorial' necessity for selection and coin- pression ; however, Mr. Wells can hardly fail to be......
Some Books Of The Week (continued From Page 535.) '
We are told that, upon its first appearance, The English Rogue, " a history of the most eminent cheats of both sexes," by Richard Head and Francis Kirkman, was a forbidden book......
Fiction
Hardy's Little Ironies Jackson. 58.) FOR the price of one indifferent novel you may now obtain all the short—or long-short—stories of Thomas Hardy, excellently printed, on paper......
Post-war
MR. THEODORE DREISER'S talent is gloomy and_oppressiye ; he seems always to be wondering whether life is worth living, and his stories are mainly essays in discouragement. Even......
The Conqueror's Stone. By Berry Fleming. (henn. 7s....
novel by a young American writer is a rollicking tale of piracy and adventure in eighteenth-century Carolina. Nicholas Waine, the son of an English emigrant, is sent to the home......
Professor George Gordon Of Oxford Has Written A...
to the latest 'volume of Times Third Leaders (Arnold) in which he gives us a most attractive picture of the " composite author " of these anonymous essays. The latter, we find,......
Mr. Canning Williams Has' Been A Bee-lover For Two Genera-
tions. His devotion to these useful insects increases with the passing of years, and in The Story of the Hive (Black, 6s.) he has collected a series of very fascinating essays......
A Really Excellent Idea Comes From The Leeds Public Library.
Under its direction have been published a series of small booklets on What to Read on Psychology, by William McDougall, What to Read on Citizenship, by H. A. L. Fisher, What to......
A Singularly Attractive Volume, Not For Invalids Alone...
everyone, is Simplified Cookery and Invalid Diet, by a doctor's wife (Faber and Gwyer, 2s. 6d.). There are diets for fever, dropsy, diabetes, constipation, &c., but the various......
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