21 DECEMBER 1918, page 19

A History Of The Collects.*

Wa can well imagine a devout Churchman saying that a book con- taining the Collects and a commentary upon the Collects is a book tee much. They are in the Prayer Book, and those......

The Story Of An -english Sister.?

Lovuns of that •did favourite book, Le Resit d'une Stour, will pro- bably be among those most strongly attracted' by Mrs. Romanist's touching memoir of her daughter;Sister......

Readable Novers.—the Admiralty's Secret. By Carlton Dime....

stealing and restealing of secret plans for the improvement of naval guns is the theme of this story. The dateis just before the war, the hero is the inventor of the plan, and......

Fiction.

THE WAR AND ELIZABE'flt* MR. MANNERING, the redemption of whose "volatile, recalcitrant soul " is told in Mrs. Humphry Ward's pages, was a country gentleman of exquisite......

Old Saws And Modern Instances.*

Me. Cossets - Ks apologizes in his Preface to this book of essays for their lack of connexion and unity, and for the antiquity of many of his themes. But his study of Euripides,......