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Letters And Papers Relating To The First Dutch War, 1652...

Edited by Samuel Rawson Gardiner. Vol. I. (Printed for the Navy Records Society.)— All the publications of the Council of the Navy Records Society are of much value to the......

The Autobiography And Diary Of Samuel Davidson, D.d.,...

by his Daughter. (r. and T. Clark, Edinburgh.) — The sub- ject of this interesting and, in many places, pathetic book, who died last year at the great age of ninety-one, was......

King Robert The Bruce. By A. F. Munson. (oliphant, Ander-

son, and Ferrier, Edinburgh. Is. 6d )—Professor Murison erred in being too enthusiastic in the monograph on Sir William Wal- lace, which he contributed to the "Famous Scots......

The Traditional Poetry Of The Finns. By Domenico...

by Isabella M. Anderton. With Introduction by Andrew Lang. (Longmans and Co. 1Gs.)—Professor Comparetti's work on the K.ilevala, with which he deals almost exclusively, was......

The City Wilderness. By Robert A. Woods. (1iougl,ton,...

Co.)—Although this is in the strictest sense a study in United States "slum sociology," it deserves the serious attention of students of similar problems on this side of the......