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One Welshman: A Glance At A Great Career. By Whitelaw

Reid. (Macmillan and Co. Is. not.)—In his inaugural address of the autumn session of the new University College of Wales at Aberystwyth, Mr. Whitelaw Reid gave a deeply......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week es have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, Author of " Erewhon." Selec- tions......

Life's Tangled Thread. By The Right Rev. W. Boyd Carpenter,

D.D., D.C.L., D.Litt. (Cassell and Co. is. net.)—If a man is old, able, and an optimist it is always worth while to listen to what he has got to say; probably we may hear......

The Chequer Board. By Sybil Grant. (hodder And Stoughton....

Sybil Grant's book of short stories contains some extremely clever work, and if it is written from a rather cynical point of view no one can say that this is not the fashion.......

Readablz Novels.—an American Wooing. By Florence...

amusing story of two girls, one engaged, the other entirely fancy free, who go to spend a summer in America.—Bunch Grass. By Horace Annesley Vachon. (John Murray. 63.)---A......

Tote. By Mrs. Hobart Hampden. (macmillan And Co. 3s. 6d.)

—This, although not a story for children, is a story entirely about them. It is concerned with the adventures of some naughty little English girls who go over the river into a......

The Eurhythmics Of Jagues-dalcroze. Introduction By...

(Constable and Co. Is. net.)—The Jaques-Dalcroze system of "rhy - thmische Gymnastik" has already attracted much attention among Continental educationists, and the......

The Passing Of The Manchus. By Percy Horace Kent. (edward

Arnold. 15s. net.)—Mr. Kent tells the story of the recent Revolution as it appeared to a well-informo 4 resident in China. His narrative is interesting on its own account, and......