BOOKS.
THIS WEEK'S BOOKS.
TIIE number of books of general interest is rapidly diminishing : soon the publisher's year will touch its summer low-tide mark. Among the novels I can find none which appears, at first sight, to be of any importance, but there are one or two scientific books which look promising. The Structure of the Atom (Bell) should be extremely interesting to those who can master its technicalities. Its author, Professor E. N. da C. Andrade, is not only a scientist of high standing, but also a poet. Professor Maxwell Lefroy's Manual of Entomology (Arnold) is a text- book with unusually excellent illustrations ; and Mr. D. H. Lawrence's Psycho-analysis and the Unconscious (Seeker) will be more strongly recommended by its author's name as a novelist than by.his fame as a psychologist. Social Life in Ancient Egypt (Constable) is a little book which cannot fail to be interesting, since it is written by Professor Flinders Petrie. Mr. Philip Graves, the Times correspondent, has a book on Palestine, the Land of Three Faiths (Cape). Where Traditions Linger (Nash and Grayson), by Mr. Allan Fea, seems to be a pieasant, dis- cursive volume on the remoter corners of England. The Cambridge University Press publishes a little book on Univer- sity Extension, by the Master of the Temple, tracing the history of that most useful movement. Sarah Bernhardt (Heinemann) is a short appreciation of a great actress by Sir George Arthur, for many years her intimate friend. The Fifth Earl Grey Memorial Lecture for this year was delivered by Lord Grey of Fallodon, who chose for his subject Some Thoughts on Public Life. His many admirers will be glad to know that this is published in pamphlet form by Mr. Humphrey Milford,
THE LITERARY EDITOR.
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