The Happy Hospital. By Corporal Ward Muir. (simpkin,...
Co. Is. 6d. net.)—Many of our readers who remember Mr. Ward Muir's lively sketches of the military hospital in which he has served almost since the outbreak of war will be glad......
Select Constitutional Documents Illustrating South...
G. W. Eybers. (Routledge. 21s. net.)— This well-edited collection of documents will be of great value to students of the complex history of South Africa. Some of the papers......
Fiction.
IMPOSSIBLE PEOPLE.* THE title of Mrs. Wemyss's story is deliberately ironical. Joanna Templar and her husband John were " impossible " in the cant sense attached to the word by......
The English Catalogue Of Books For 1917. (publishers'...
6d.)—This indispensable record of the year's books appears in its usual form- and with its accustotned promptitude. The prefa- tory analysis shows that the output for 1917 was......
The Poetical Works Of Gray And Collins. Edited By Austin
Lane Poole and Christopher Stone. (Oxford University Press. 2s. 6d. net.)—This scholarly edition, printed in good clear type, contains of Gray not only the Odes and the Elegy,......
King George And The Royal Family. By Edward Legge. (grant
Richards. 30s. net. )—Mr. Legge seems to have kept a large common- place book for facts and fancies regarding the King and the Royal Family, and to have printed it in these two......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review." The third number of Lord Charnwood's excellent quarterly, Recalled to Life (John Bale, Sons, and......
'the Freshwater Fish Committee Of The Board Of...
Fisheries has issued a most instructive little pamphlet on The Capture of Eels, which may be had free of charge by any one who writes for it. The Committee is indeed so anxious......
Edible Oils And Fats. By Cl, Ainsworth Mitchell....
Co. Os. 6d. net.)--This useitd teohnical handbook, dealing with a subject of great importance, includes an instructive chapter on margarine. The French chemist Mege-Mouries, who......
The Geographical Journal For May Contains Sir Aston...
paper on the London Society's proposals for the improve- ment of the capital, including new main roads, new parks, the embankment of the south side of the river from Lambeth to......
The Cambridge University Presta Has Published An...
Selections from the Poems of William Worthworth, edited by Mr. A. Hamilton Thompson (2s. 6c1. net), including some of the finest of the shorter poems and select passages from......
Grammar Crud Vocabulary Of The Samoan Language. By H....
(Kegan Paul. 5s. net.)—Some devout Stevensonians Will be glad tohnow of this practical little guide to the Samoan tongue, translated from the German by Mr. Arnold B. Stook. It......
Readable Novels.—thon—dcuth—arnateure. By Mis._ John...
6d.)—An account of how a set of amateur nurses start a hospital in France, and are so ably led by their trained matron that, Instead of coming to grief as the follies of the......
A Dozen Of Mr. Leonard Merrick's Fellow-authors Art...
to a new edition of twelve of his novels. The first volume, Conrad in Quest of his Youth (Hodder and Stoughton, Os. net), has an attractive and enthusiastic Prefsee by Sir J. M.......
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