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The Collection Of Franklin Imprints In The Museum Of The

Curtis Publishing Company. By W. J. Campbell. (Philadelphia : Curtis Publishing Company.)—In this handsome volume, printed in a fine and bold type recalling the......

The French Revolution In English History.*

LIEUTENANT BROWN, who was killed in France in 1916 at the age of twenty-nine, was an able young Oxford historian who had made his mark as a lecturer for the Workers' Educational......

Pearl. Rendered Into Modern English Verse By E. J. B.

Kirtlan. (C. H. Kelly. 2s. 6d. net.)—Thl remarkable English fourteenth. century poem, "Pearl," which Dr. Gollancz has brought to the notice of our generation, has attracted......

Some Books Of The Week.

INdics in This column Joss not necessarily pescludo tubloguost My German Prisons. By Captain H. G. Gilliland. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s. net.)—Captain Gilliland's narrative of......

The German Empire Of Central Africa. By Emil Zimmermann....

and Co. is. net.)—Mr. Edwyn Bevan has thrown new light on German war aims in his Introduction to this German pamphlet, advocating for military and economic reasons the seizure......

Readable Novels.—the Years For Rachel. By Berta Ruck,...

Stoughton. es.)—A story of a very long engagement, of which the reader will get almost as tired as did the heroine. Her sudden marriage to an enterprising flying man at the end......

Fiction.

THE NEW MOON.* MR. OLIVER ONIONS takes his title from a passage in More's Utopia which compares the shape of the fabulous island to a new moon, and the " rubrications " of his......