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In America There Are About Three Million Jews. Half Of

this number lives in New York City. Of the whole number, about 500,000 arc Spanish and German Jews. The other 2,500,000 are " Polish " or " Eastern " Jews, descendants of the......

Songs For Boys. By Boys Of Throston Sehool (printed By

F. W. Mason, Hartlepool. 6d. net.) This is a collection of 105 poems, produced by an entire class of 40 boys in standard V. at Throston Boys' School, Hartlepool, (Continued on......

Seamanship For Yachtsmen. By Francis B. Cooke. (edward...

ad. not.) Mr. Francis B. Cooke has written most of this book before, and yet he has ne a r written it so well. After all, there is not much new that anybody can say about the......

Into A Sort Of Literary Queen Mary's Gift Book Mr.

Callender has collected stories, essays, poems and pictures by authors and artists whose work has been published at the sign of The Windmill (Messrs. Heinemann, Ltd.). The......

This Is Perhaps The Best Kind Of Book That Can

be written for the amateur dressmaker, for it assumes complete ignorance of the subject on the part of the reader, and only attempts- - to instruct in that which can be attained......

Finance-public & Private.

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] WHAT IS CREDIT ? . [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Last week at the close of my letter I felt it my duty to emphasize the serious view taken in......

Children—of Every Age—who Like Original Ideas Will Be...

Miss Curtis Brown's zeollection - of " Quite Wild Animals." The drawings, ,which are reminiscent of "Lear's delightful_ figures, are very convincing, while the character......