The Study Of The Weather. By E. H. Chapman. (cambridge
University Press. 3s. t3d. net.)—This little book, illustrated with many photographs and maps, is intended partly for school- boys and partly for the general public. It is......
Nature Has Celebrated Its Jubilee In A Special Number...
articles by eminent men of science on the work of the past fifty years. Sir Norman Lockyer, whose portrait is given with the number, describes how, with the enthusiastic support......
Hartfield'8 Sterling Conversion Tables.' Supplement. (new...
Hartfield. $8 net.)—This pamphlet, supplementary to Mr. Hartfield's well-known tables, is a melancholy sign of the times, for it has been "published to meet the demand for such......
Outlines Of The History Of The English Language. By E.
Classen. (Macmillan. 5s. net.)—Dr. Classen's little work will be read with curiosity and interest by many people to whom a text- book of the ordinary kind would be repellent. He......
Paton's List Of Schools And Tutors. (j. And J. Paton.
3s.)— The twenty-second annual edition of this very useful directory may be commended to parents in search of a school for boys or girls. Now that the large schools are......
Some Books Of The Week.
(Natio in tMs soinsan does not noses:cribs products subsornsod rains.] Sir Frederick Pollock contributes an instructive article on "Methods of International Arbitration" to the......
Salonica And After The 8ideshow That Ended The War. By
H. Collinson Owen. (Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d. net)— Mr. Owen, the editor of the Balkan News for the last two years of the war, has written an interesting book about......
Shropshire; The Geography Of The County. By W. W. Watts.
(Shrewsbury: Wilding. 2s. 6d. net.)—Professor Watts wrote this admirable little book for the Cambridge series of county geographies, but he exceeded his limits of space and has......
Some Notes On Mapping And Prospecting In Central Africa. By
C. Grey. (Hugh Rees.)—Mr. Charles Grey has summarized In this little book the lessons of long years of experience in Africa. "Probably there is no country," he says, "possessing......
Aucassin Et Nicolete. Edited By F. W. Botirdillon. (man-...
University Press and Longmans. 4s. 6d. net.)—It is over thirty years since Mr. Bourdillon published the first of his editions of the charming old French story, to which Walter......