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• Ne* Novel ' S

THE MANOR HOUSE. By Netta Syrett. (Geoffrey Bles: 7s. un :t er e ci liti e p a tr ar r b o Y derL fa t l ht love and Thbr:1 7 ( arTruir!' true, has a familiar look ; but Miss......

• Personae : One Pillar Of The British Empire, One

Junior , • Ditto, One Educated Half-Caste, One Native Girl, One ' Comic Hotel-Keeper, One Wicked Peer and One Vamp. Chorus of Soldiers and Natives. The plot is even cruder than......

History Of Palestine • And Syria To The Macedonian Conquest

By Professor Olmstead Professor Olmstead, who holds the chair of Oriental History- at Chicago, and is favourably known for his'history of Assyria, has written • a valuable......

By Karel Capek Mr. Karel Capek's Letters From Spain...

Bles, 5s.) will delight Many readers, not particularly because they are a profound or acute picture of the country, though there are many shrewd and penetrating passages, but......

The Old Norse Sagas

By Halvdan Koht Poetry flourished so astonishingly in Iceland, during the early years of colonization, that it became almost a national profession. Every second Icelander going......

Current Literature

JOHN JACOB ASTOR By Kenneth Wiggins : Porter THE Harvard University Press has begun a series of studies in the business history, of America With a formidable life Of John Jacob......

Gulfs. By Lieut.-col. Noel Craig. (herbert Jenkins. 75....

and this country there is a great gulf fixed. Colonel Craig attempts to bridge it with the planks of a British officer and a heroine from the Middle AVeSt. In spite of a lack of......

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Straw-feet. By John Brandane. (constable. 7s. 6d.).

• ; —The man with straw in his boots kept crossing Dr. Finlay MacLeod 's path, in the Hebrides and then in . France during the War. Mr. Brandane loves the High. lands, and tells......

Is God A Frenchman ?

By Friedrich Sieburg When M. Briand apostrophizes France as the "soldier of peace," he states, all unwittingly, the dilemma of the present- day world. For no one is more hungry......

A Prince Of Romance. By Roland Pertwee. (heine- ' Maim.

7s. 6d.)—Three morganatic romances in Syrilla; ' two tragic, the third, despite an iron Dictator and thanks to his daughter, happy. Gallantly, and with an eye to film rights,......

By Vladimir Orloff

M.' Vladimir Orloff tells us, in - The Secret Dossier (1-rarran, 8s. 6d.), that in Tsarist days he was an examining magistrate, and in that rapacity interrogated Dzerzhinsky,......