Since Sir John Fortescue's The Empire And The Army (cassell,
10s. 6d.) is written primarily, as the author states, to serve as a.text 7 book for soldiers, we must content ourselves with doing'little more than registering the book's......
The Appearance Of The First Part Of The Fortnightly Publica-
tion, .1 See All, a pictorial encyclopedia edited by Mr. Arthur Mee, is indeed an event in the world of journalism. I See AU is the first pictorial encyclopedia in the world. In......
For Some Time It Was Suspected That The Chemical Treatises
attributed to Geber were not authentic ; but since an original Arabic text has been found for one treatise, it becomes possible to believe the whole corpus is genuine. An......
Mr. E. V. Lucas's " County Songs " Have Been
appearing in Punch for so many weeks that some readers may suspect him of having eulogized certain counties twice or thrice over. Now that they really do appear for a second......
As The Late Clerk Of The Privy Council, Sir Almerie
Fitzroy is naturally interested in its origins and progress through the ages, and his short History of the Privy Cvincil (Murray, 21s.) reflects his liking for the subject. His......
Some Books Of The Week
Da. VERNON BARTLET, introducing Professor C. J. Cadoux's monumental work Catholicism and Christianity : a Vindi- cation of Progressive Protestantism (Allen and Unwin, 21s.),......
The Competition
AT one time or another every one of us has either mistaken the identity of some one else or has been mistaken for some one else—a contretemps which generally resulted in an......
("more Books Of The Week" And " General Knowledge Com-
petition" will be found on pages 746 and 749.)......
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