20 NOVEMBER 1909, page 8

Two War Stories.*

THE Franco-Prussian War does not belong to past history in the sense in which the Crimean War so belongs. It began an era of which we have not by any means seen the end. This is......

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THE CHILDREN'S STORY OF THE BEE, EVERY one knows that a bee has a sting. This, as Mr. Bensusan puts it, is "the best known, if not the most popular, development of the......

Peeps At Many Lands China. By Lena E. Johnston. (a.

and C, Black. is. 6d.)—This is a delightful book, quite worthy of the excellent series to which it belongs. If it is true that the waking of China "will be like the waking of......

The Romance Of Modern Manufacture. By Charles R. Gibson....

and Co. 5s.)—Opinions may differ as to what constitutes romance in industrial enterprise, but there can be little doubt that from the reader's point of view it depends on the......

The Romance Of History : Mexico. By Margaret Duncan Coxhead.

(T. C. and E. C. Jack. es. net.)—The volume is wholly occupied with the conquest of the country by Cortes, except so much as is given to the introductory chapters - which......