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Novels Of The Week.•

" The Goblin" is one of the most aggravatingly unequal books imaginable. It deals with the fortunes from childhood to early manhood of the three brothers Luttrell—the......

The Eastern Problem.

The Far East : its History and its Question. By Alexis Krauaae. (Grant Richards. 18s.)—In his latest work Mr. Krausse has g iven us a valuable epitome of the political history......

C Iirrent Literat Ure.

PERSONALITY AS A PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLE. An Essay on Personality as a Philosophical Principle. By the Rev. Wilfrid Richmond, M.A. (Edward Arnold. 108. Cd.)— This is a......

Kant And Scientific Investigation.

Eant's Cosmogony as shown in his Essay on the Retardation of the Rotation of the Earth. and his Natural History and Theory of the Heavens. Edited and Translated by W. Hastie,......

A Woman In The Rockies.

A Woman Tenderfoot. By Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson. (D. Nutt. 6s.)—Mrs. Seton-Thompson is of the opinion that, like the Quaker wife, her place should be with her husband; so......