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New Editions.—life And Times Of Niccolo Machiavelli. By...

Villari. Translated by Linda Villari. (T. Fisher Unwin. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is the first complete edition of Professor Villari's great book to appear in an English form. The......

A History Of The Gunpowder Plot. By Philip Sidney. (r.t.s.

52.)—It is generally allowed that the attempt to relegate the Gunpowder Plot story to the realm of myth has failed. But there are many unsolved problems in this same story—as......

Seagulls, And Other Poems. By Enid Welsford. (g....

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Russia Of To - Day. From The German Of Baron E. Von

der Briiggen by M. Sandwith. (Digby, Long, and Co. 6s.)—" Every year," says our author, "there is an extension of the Empire amounting to 86,000 German square miles." As a......

Printers' Pie. (offices Of The Sphere. Ls. Net.)—we Are Glad

to see this second specimen of Printers' Pie, " a Festival Souvenir of the Printers' Pension Corporation," a "picnic," we may say, to which various popular authors contribute......

Earth's Enigmas. By Charles G. D. Roberts. (duckworth And...

5s. net.)—Mr. Roberts tells us that he seeks in most .of his stories " to present one or another of the problems of life or nature to which, as it appears to many of us, there......

War And Neutrality In The Far East. By T. J.

Lawrence, LL.D. (Macmillan and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Professor Lawrence briefly relates the causes of the Russo-Japanese War, causes which may be shortly summarised by saying that......