Dr. Arthur Raneome's Activity Of More Than Half A Century
in the fight against tuberculosis will be well known by our readers. Under the title of A Campaign against Consumption (Cambridge University Press, 10s. 6d, net) he has now......
Readable Novels.—you Never Know Your Luck. By Gilbert...
and Stoughton. 6s.)—A delicate and charming comedy of prairie life. Mr. Jacobs'S illustra- tions deserve a word of especial praise.—Another Grey Ghost Book. By Jessie Adelaide......
The Dublin Home Show Is The Most Generally Known Enter-
prise of the Royal Dublin Society. But since its foundation in 1731 the range of its activities has been extremely wide : "From agricultural machinery and the great fishing......
Peter Paragon. By John Palmer. (martin Seeker. 6s.)— This...
we imagine, Mr. Palmer's first novel, and it is a fine piece of work. He calls it, on the title-page, "a tale of youth": it is scarcely a tale—rather a study of a boy's......
The Desirability Of Establishing Home Handicrafts In The...
of England has often beett brought for- ward. Mr. J. L. Green in a book upon Village Industries : a National Obligation (Rural World Publishing Company. Is. 6d.) suggests a......
In An Old Highland Feneade Corps (w. Blackwood And Sons,
21s. net), Captain I. H. Mackay Scobie relates the history of the Reay Fencible Highland Regiment of Foot, otherwise known as " Macluty's Highlanders." This was a regiment......
A Variety Of Different Scientific Studies Connected With...
are dismissed in non-teohnical language by Professor A. Berget, of the Institut Oct anographique, in The Earth: its Life and Death (G. P. Putnam's Sono, 7s. 6d. net). The book M......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Notice in iltio column dors not necessarily proclido eibweiont rovie1.1 The lately completed third edition of The Golden Bough extends to eleven volumes, and there was an......
An Illustrated History Of Music (john Murray, Is. 6d. Net)
has been written by Mr. Thomas Tapper and Mr. Percy Goetschius, both of whom hold lectureships in New York. The book is upon popular and conventional lines, and neces- sarily......
. The -attitude Of Bulgaria Towards The War Has Recently
assumed unusual interest. Mr. Frank Fox's short volume %Km Bulgaria (A. and Cl. Black, 10s. net) has consequently appeared at a most appropriate moment. He gives a lively......
"eleven Short Visits To Russia, All Within The Last Five
years," form the basis of Mr. John Hubback's volume of Ilvasian Realities (John Lane, 5s. net). Mr. Hubback does not show any very deep knowledge of Russia, but he records......
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