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Soldiers Of The Prophet. By Lieut.-colonel C. C. R. Murphy.

(HOgg. 10s. 6d. net.)—The author was intelligence officer in the Persian Gulf before the War and during the campaign in Mesopotamia, and he also headed the British Mission to......

A Committee Of The Land Union, At 15 Lower Grosvenor

Place, S.W., has issued a report on The Present Condition of Agriculture and Some of the Causes Thereof, which is most painful reading. The Committee gives details of the......

The Threshold Of Motherhood. By Il Douglas Howat, L.r.c.,...

L.R.F.P.S. (Glasgow : Maclehose, Jackson and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Howat has written an excellent little text-book of midwifery—a text-book, as he explains in his preface, not......

The Complete Book Of The Dog. By Robert Leighton. (cassell.

10s. 6d. net.)—This comprehensive, readable and well illustrated book deserves commendation. Mr. Leighton, as an experienced judge, writes with authority, and he has planned his......

The State Childrelis Association, In Its Report For The Year

1920-21, endorses the views of the Howard Penal Reform League on the evils of sending adolescents from sixteen to twenty-one to prison (under the imperfect " modified Borstal "......

Recollections. By Sir Charles W. Macara. (cassell. 7s....

Charles Macara's autobiography contains much interesting matter relative to the cotton trade, including the famous " Brooklands agreement " of 1893, and the steady growth of the......