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A Challenge To Neurasthenia (williams And Norgate, Is....

written by, and from the point of view of, a patient suffering from the disease which she discusses. Miss Armitage, whose name appears only on the last page, here gives an......

A Thoughtful Little Book Is The Universities In Great...

: their Position and their Problems, by Professor Ernest Barker (Student Christian Movement Press, 3s. 6d.), and deserves to be widely read. Professor Barker, an Oxford man who......

Books About Rousseau Have Fallen On Us Of Late As

thick as autumnal leaves in Vallombrosa ; and Mr. John Charpentier is a bold man to add yet another to the pile. Rousseau : the Child of Nature (Methuen, 15s.) is, however, a......

Sir Herbert Wilkins Has Returned From His Arctic Voyage By

submarine, and presumably will soon give a full account of the adventure. What he proposed to do, his methods and his companions are described in advance in Under the North Pole......

Current Literature

Tins country has to thank General Sir Charles Monro, a scion of a well-known Scottish family, for three things. He was among the first founders of modem infantry fire tactics,......

Those Who Would Appraise The Indian Ferment In Its True

dimensions cannot do better than read a little book which sets forth the conclusions of Christa Seva Sangha, a com- munity of Englishmen and Indians wedded to Indian customs and......

* * * * The Special Autumn Number Of The

Studio, published at 7s. 6d., is this year devoted to Modern Photography. By modem " photography, Mr. G. H. Saxion means photo- graphy whose aim is partly or wholly aesthetic as......

The Literary Reputation Of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Has Been

somewhat obscured by the activities of his later public life. Engaging, with characteristic integrity and force, upon a fresh career in controversial waters, he deliberately......