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The Natural History Museum, South Kensington, Has...

series of "economic pamphlets" at a penny apiece, describing dangerous insons and showing how they should be dealt with. The pamphlet on The House-Fly as a Danger to Health, by......

Nelson's Last Diftry. With An Introduction And Notes By...

Hudson. (Elkin Mathews. 2e. 6d. net.)—Nelson's private diary from September 13th, 1805, when lie left Merton, to the morning of October 21,4, when he wrote a last prayer and a......

In The Bulletin Of The John Rylands Library For August

(Man- chester University Press end Longmans and Co., le.) will be found a most interesting paper on "Mediaeval Town Planning," by Pro- fessor Tout. Ho shows how Edward I.......

Seen Natio, Nobleman. By K. G. Ossiannikson. (r. Fisher...

3s. 6d. net.)—This" open letter " from a Swedish friend of the Allies, translated by Mr. H. G. Wright, is an effective exposure • of Mr. Sven Hedin as a pro-German of a virulent......

Lee Doctrines Midrersfee Chez Donne. Par Marypaton...

Press. 7s. Od. net.)—This learned and able essay, written as a thesis for the Doctor's degree in the University of Paris, deserves the attention of those who are interested in......

John Milton : Topical Bibliography. By Elbert N. S....

(IL Milford. 55. net.)—This very useful book, by a teacher in Iowa University, deserves to lie noted. It gives references not only to Milton's works, but also to the authorities......

Zionism And The Neo-zionists. By Laurie 3lognus. (st....

Magnus urges in this pamphlet that in view of the Russian Revolution, which is setting free the Jews, and the coming collapse of Prussia, the chief anti-Semitic State, there is......

Books And Persons. By Arnold Bennett. (chatto And Windus....

net.)—Mr. Bennett in always an amusing writer, and his " com- ments on a past epoch," reprinted from the New Aga for the years from 1908 to 1911, are as entertaining in their......

Shells As Evidence Of The Migrations Of Early Culture. By

J. Wilfrid Jackson. (Longmans and Co. Cs. net.)—Mr. Jackson, of the Manchester Museum, has accumulated in this little volume much instructive evidence as to the geographical......

The Babylonian Section Of The Pennsylvania University...

four parts of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth volumes of its scholarly publications of tablets from the Nippur collection. The most important is a collection of Sumerian......