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Trade And The Empire.* Tun Illogical Practicality Of The...

character finds a peculiarly happy illustration in the early history of our foreign trade. Nothing could be loss like the orderly development imagined by the theoretical......

Bengali Cults And Myths..

FROM one point of view, this is a very interesting and valuable book, bring, so far as we know, the first detailed and accurate description in English of one of the many and......

Fiction.

MR. RUBY JUMPS THE TRACES.* Ix one of the most characteristic of the " Bab Ballads " the late Sir William Gilbert describes how a man who had lived a perfectly blameless life......

Readable Novsts.—the Dupe. By Charlotte Mansfield,...

Co. Gs.)—A story of German plots in Natal in 1914 and 1915. It throws much light on the wide- spread nature of Germany's preparations for war.—The Cross Roads. By A. B. A. Shute......