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Military Missionaries

The Staff and the Staff College. By Major A. R. Godwin- Austen, M.O. Illustrated. (Constable. 21s.) " Good gracious ! uncle, what is That, With red and gold upon his hat ? . .......

Fiction

Old and New Horrors The Necromancer : or the Tale of the Black Forest. Translated from the German of Lawrence Flammenberg. By Peter Tenthold. (Robert Holden. is. 6d.) More......

,current Literature

THE CORNISH MINER. By A. K. Hamilton Jenkin. (Allen and Unwin. 12s. 6d.)—All Cornishmen will enjoy this book. It gives a glimpse of a race apart, living under circum- stances......

The Portrait Of Sir John Soane, R.a. By Arthur T.

Bolton. (Sir John Soane's Museum. 16s.)—The Curator of the Soanc Museum has not given us a portrait of Sir John Soane, but a group picture of the circle in which he lived, in......