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Some Books Of The Week.

Mike in this column dace not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Fourth Series. Vol. I.—Professor Oman's presidential address......

The Treaties Of 1785, 1799, And 1828 Between The United

States and Prussia. Edited by J. B. Scott. (Oxford University Press. 8s. Od. net.)—This volume, published for the Carnegie Endowment, contains the text of the old......

The War Story Of The C.a.m.c., 1914-15. By Colonel J.

G. Adami. VoL I. (Colour, Ltd., and Rolls House Publishing Co. 5s. net.)—Colonel Adamre interesting book on the Canadian Army Medical Corps begins before the war, for the......

The League Of Nations : The Opportunity Of The Church.

By the Bishop of Oxford. (Hodder and Stoughton. la. net.)— Dr. Gore sees in the League of Nations not only a means of averting future ware, but also en opportunity of giving......

Readable Novelb.—fernando. By John Ayscough. (john Long....

Ayscough's " charm of writing will make this book acceptable as a whole to readers who do not hold his religious point of view. It is however autobio- graphical, and will......

Fiction.

THE ROLL-CALLt Mn. ARNOLD BENNETT'S now novel is a story of irregular " mite. stones " beginning in the early years of the present century and ending in the early months of the......

The Reckoning. By The Hon. James M. Beek. (hodder And

Stoughton. 2e. fid. net.)—Mr. Beck, whose vigorous book, The Evidence in the Case, did much to persuade his fellow- Americana that they must take part in the war, urges in this......

Our Common Conscience. By George Adam Smith. (hodder And...

Be. not.)—The Principal of Aberdeen Uni• ✓ arsity went to America last spring, travelled twenty.two thousand miles, and addressed one hundred and twenty-seven meetings on the......