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The Brain Of The Nation.* Graves's Poems Stand In No

need of recommendation, and it will be enough to say that the new volume which he has collected possesses all the qualities with which his former work has made us familiar. His......

The Pacification Of Burma.*

Sin CHARLES CROSTHWAITE gives us in this book a com- plete account of the various small expeditions and the administrative methods by which peace and order were achieved in......

The Life Of Ruskin.*

BIOGRAPHIES are of two kinds—monuments and quarries, where the materials for monuments are to be found. Mr. E. T. Cook's life of Ruskin is a quarry. In these two thick volumes......