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Modern Turkey. By E. Grinnell Mears. (Macmillan. 25s.) The white-hot

racial pride of the Turks, out of which Mustafa Kemal Pasha is forging a new nation on the anvil of adversity, has naturally enough been but lightly touched on in a work of this nature. But the facts given are excellent, and Mr. Mears has set forth a diversity of information regarding Turkey and - its intricate and overlapping races. Much of this information is new ; all of it appears to be accurate and well arranged. There is, for instance, a seventeen page -bibliography, chrono- logically arranged. To understand the spirit of the New Turkey, the student must go to Angora. But if that is impossible, an impartial and informative reference book such as this is to be warmly recommended.