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The new edition of Biography for Beginners (Werner Laurie, 3s.

6d.) is signalized by carrying the author's full name. This Bentley-cum-Chesterton scintillation requires no com- mendation (does not every smoking-room know the elerihew?), but are we now to refer to the quatrains as blerihews ? At any rate,

" Mr. Werner Laurie Is not at all sorry He undertook the publication Of this instructive compilation.