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Some Books Of The Week

I, animals must be caught it is as well that the work should be done by such men as Frank Buck, the author, with Edward Anthony, of a volunie of reminiscences entitled Bring 'Em......

The Magazines

Tim Nineteenth Century for February begins with a rather lame defence of the group system, , The Twilight of the Parties," by Mr. Stuart Hodgson. Mr. J. J. Ide contributes a......

The Religious Ferment In England Under Charles Ii And James

II has often been studied, for out of it came Noncon- formity as an organized force. But Dr. C. E. Whiting's comprehensive and dispassionate Studies in Puritanism from the......

To A Very Large Extent Lord Sanderson's Memories Of Sixty

Years (Methuen, 10s. 6d.) is a history of the recent phases of the working-class movement on its educational side, for he was intimately connected; as tutor and 'eventually as......

It May Be Pedantry To Object To An Abridgment Of

Boswell's Johnson. It is not pedantry to open such an abridgment in a critical spirit. We do- not think, however, that the truest lovers of Dr. Johnson will grudge this "......

The Title Of Sir David Harris's Pioneer, Soldier And...

(Sampson Low, 8s. 6d.) is rather more alluring than the contents justify. The author's pioneering mainly consisted in a rapid achievement of a good living as a diamond-broker in......

General Knowledge Questions

Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to E. hitching, Stoneleigh ? Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Herts, for the following :--......