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A Very Timely And Useful " Annual " Is Dod's

Parliamentary Companion (Whittaker and Co., 4e. 6d.), now in its twenty-third year, this being the eighty-first issue, the meeting of a new Parliament having from time to time......

Stock Exchange Securities. By Niel Ballingall Gunn. (w...

Sons. 2s. net.)—We need hardly say that this is an interesting volume. For practical advice the most valuable section, as dealing with a dangerous investment, is that on in-......

Winston Spencer Churchill.

Winston Spencer Churchill. By A. Ma.cCallum Scott. (Methuen and Co. 3s. 6d.)—To review this book in detail would be to deal with some of the most important questions of the last......

[under This Heading We Notice Such Books Of The Week

as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Free Trade. By Lord Avebury. (Macmillan and Co. 2s. 6d.)— Lord Avebury has rewritten, with additions, two chapters on......

Uganda And Its Peoples. By J. F. Cunningham. (hutchinson And

Co. 24s. net.)—Mr. Cunningham has been engaged for some time in the administration of the Uganda Protectorate. He assisted Sir H. Johnston in the preparation of his work on......

The Reconstruction Of The University Of London. Part I By

W. H. Allchin, M.D. (H. K. Lewis. 2s. 6d. net.)—Seventy-odd years ago there was founded what was meant to be the University of London. It had its habitation in Gower Street. But......

We Gladly Record The Appearance Of The Annual Volume (new

Series, XXVI.) of the Journal of Education (W. Rice, Is. 6d.) It is not sufficient to say that the Journal of Education supplies an excellent record of educational history, and......

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Side Lights On Protection. By Austin Taylor, M.p. (t. Fisher

Unwin. 6d.)—Mr. Taylor, whose interesting letters in the Spectator on American shipping will doubtless be fresh in our readers' memories, finds the "vanished industry" of which......