Professor W. J. Sedgefield, Who Holds The Chair Of English
Language at Manchester University, has written a deeply interesting study upon The Place-Names of Cumberland and Westmorland (Longmans and Co. for the Manchester Univer- sity......
We Have Received A Copy Of The Annual Register For
the Year 1914 (Longmans and Co., ISa.). The task of the com- pilers of this most useful book must have been of extreme difficulty in the present instance. It is a hundred years......
A New Volume Has Been Published In The Oxford Collection
of classical texts. It contains Ovid's Tristia, Epistulae as Ponta, and Halieutica, as well as fragments of lost works (Oxford University Press, 3s.). The text has been edited......
The Captain Of His Soul. By Henry James Forman. (grant
Richards. 6s.)—When Gilbert Spottswood, not far from starvation, and unable to satisfy his ambition for journalistic work, lived in a slum in New York, his German landlord......
The Statesman's Year-book For 1915 (macmillan And Oa.,...
net) has been issued in the face of obvious difficulties. It has been impossible to obtain the usual official revision of the chapters upon Germany and Austria-Hungary; while,......
A New Edition Has Appeared Of Philips' Handy Volume Atlas
of the World (George Philip and Son, 2s. 6d. net). It con- tains a "War Supplement," consisting of small-scale maps of the two main fields of war said a tabular statement of the......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Nair. in We column does not neesssorai, preetudo tubtrount rmilsw.] In his essay upon Political Ideals: their Nature and Development (Humphrey Milford, 2s. 6d. net), Mr. C.......
Readable Novels.—the House Of The Misty Star. By The Author
of The Lady of the Decoration. (Hodder and Stough. ton. 6s.)—A prettily written and "understanding" story of young Americans in old Japan.—Battles of Life. By Austin Philips.......
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