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/maginotions. By Tudor Jenks. (T. Fisher Unwin. 3s. 6d. net.)

—There is plenty of fun in this volume. The adventurers who teach a savage tribe the art of skating on rollers, Merlin with the wizard and the magician (not the same things, it would appear), the Professor and the Patagonian giant (the giant finds a flavour of originality in the Professor by the simple pro-

cess of eating him), and other whimsical people who figure in these pages are sufficiently good. Is not the form of the book a

little to.) massive ? Did not Dr. Johnson say something about the advantage of having certain books of a size which admits of being held in the hand ?