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Current Literature In This Well-printed And Attractively...

Ich Kann Deutsch Lesen : I can read German. (Heinemann, 2s. 6d.) Mrs. C. Gladstone Solomon has made a useful con- tribution to the list of language-learning "methods." "The......

Travel

[We publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in making their plans for travel at home and abroad. They are written by correspondents who have visited......

In Accordance With The Prevalent Taste For Celebrating...

very interesting little book has been devoted to the memory of James Clerk Maxwell (Cambridge University Press, 6s.), who was born on June lath, 1831. Ten of the greatest living......

Fiction

Round the Compass IN a sense, every work of tragedy is a put-up job. The author must set the stage : but we distinguish sharply between different degrees of arrangement, calling......

Mr. Patrick Chalmers' Gun Dogs (eyre And Spottiswoode,...

a dozen picturesque notes on the more im- portant breeds of sporting dogs. Slight and unpretentious in structure, these sketches have a warmth and colour that are wholly......

A Book Of Sporting Painters, By Walter Shaw Sparrow (john

Lane, 42s.) will be more interesting to lovers of sport than to lovers of painting, as it is rather a biographical survey of the painters than an estimate of their work. Mr.......