The Age Of The Enlightened Despot, 16604789, By A. H.
Johnson (Methuen and Co., 2s. 6d.), belongs to the series of "Six Ages of European History," appearing under Mr. Johnson's goners' editorship. The author divides the period into......
Readablb Novims.—ifenry Of Navarre. By May Wynne....
6s.)—As a romantic play of the same title as this book is being acted in London at the moment, it is sufficient to say that there is plenty of adventure and movement in the......
• General Lee: Man And Soldier. By Thomas Nelson Page.
(T. Werner Laurie. 6s. net.)---It is only natural that the biographer of General Lee should write with enthusiasm, se great was tho man's military capacity, so admirable was he......
Historical Portraits. By C. R. L. Fletcher And Emory Walker.
(The Clarendon Press. 8s. 6d. net.)—Hero we have a collection of biographies, one hundred and three in number, the work of Mr. Fletcher, who has also furnished the introduction......
Sleeping Sickness: How To Avoid Infeetion. (sleeping...
Society.)—" Sleeping sickness is caused by the presence in the system of a minute organism (Trypanosome) which is conveyed. from the sick to the healthy by the bite of a species......
Introduction To The Natural History Of .danguage. By T. G.
Tucker. (Blackie and Son. 10s. 6d. net.)—Professor Tucker has given us hero an admirably arranged account of the great families of language. He distinguishes them by the methods......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Under this heaaing we uotioe such Booke of the week as haus not been reserved for revieto in other forms,) The Revised Version of the New Testament, with Introductions and......