17 JUNE 1922, page 20

Fiction.

ABDICATION.* THERE is more than one way of treating the political novel. There is, for instance, Disraeli's way. There is also Mrs. Humphry Ward's way. But these two methods......

South Africa's Resources.

PaoFEsson LEmszerer, of the Witwatersrand University, has written a most valuable pamphlet on The National Resources of South Africa (Longmans, 5s.), comparable in its way to......

A Fellowship With Wild Birdb.f A Grudging' Estimate Of This

volume might call the text a pendent to the incomparable illustrations of American birds with- their nests, eggs and young which so enrich it. That would be unfair to MIS.......

Somerset Historical Essays.

THE DEAN or WELTS in his new volume of Somerset Historical Essays (H. Milford for the British Academy, 10s. 6d. net) is concerned with the Somerset of the Early Middle Ages and......