Readable Novels.—the Messenger. By Elizabeth Robins....
net.)—Miss Robins contrives to make the rather threadbare scheme of the governess-spy quite interesting. The account of the visit of the American girl Nan Ellis to the spy in......
Mr. George Brown Has Produced A Pleasant And Informing Study
in his A Book of R. L. S. (Methuen, 7s. 6d.). His criticisms and biographical and bibliographical information are arranged alphabetically, and this arrangement, which is so......
Some Books Of The Week.
1Notiee in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Judicial Settlement of Controversies between States of the Ameri- can Union. Cases Decided, and Analysis......
Coggin. By Ernest Oldmeadow. (grant Richards. 7s. It Is...
an invidious task to he asked to comment on the first volume of a three - volume novel, for this the opening book of the biography of Harry Coggin avowedly is. It can only be......
Insurance Law. By Sanford D. Cole. (effingham Wilson. 6s....
little handbook, covering insurance t he all kinds, is designed to inform those who are not lawyers of the legal prin- ciples underlying insurance transactions. It is well......
Economics Of The Silk Industry. By Ratan C. Rawlley. (p.
S. King. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Rawlley's learned and dispassionate study of the silk trade deserves attention both from an economic and a political standpoint. He sketches the......
Histoire De R Empire Byzantin. Par Charles Diehl. (paris...
Diehl, one of the brilliant band of French Byzantine scholars, has condescended to write a short history of the Byzantine Empire. It is a very able and stimulating little book.......
The Carnegie Endowment Is Publishing Through The Oxford...
a useful series of " Preliminaiy Economic Studies of the War," edited by Professor Kinley, of Illinois (52. net each). We may mention among them Professor Fairlie's compact and......
The Conquerors Of Palestine Through Forty Centuries. By...
0. Lock. (R. Scott. 7s. 6d. net.)—Major Lock has produced a readable sketch of a large subject, with a brief Introduction by Lord Allenby, the latest of the conquerors whose......
The Theory Of Relativity. By H. L. Brows. (oxford :
Black- well. is. 6d. not.)—This well-written pamphlet is an attempt " to give a non-mathematical description of some of the loading ideas of the theory of relativity and to......
Captain Swing, By F. Brett Young And W. Edward Stirling
(Collins, 2s. net), is a tragedy of the agrarian troubles of 1830, and, though a good deal of the dialogue is a little conventional, the play would probably prove to be not......
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