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ENVIRONMENT. By Phyllis E. Bentley. (Sidgwick and Jackson. 7s. 6d.

net.)—This book is intended to repre- sent the effects of environment on a given character. The author, however, does not -entirely succeed in making her point. Her -book is a carefully constructed and detailed account of the _life of the girl of the middle classes, but it is in no sense . a study of temperament.