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American Ideals, Character, And Life. By Hamilton Wright...

and Co. Os. 63. net.)—We should like to know what Dr. Johnson would have said if he could have been told that within a hundred and thirty years of his death Japan and the United......

New Enmoms.--the Bayeux Tapestry. By Frank Reds Fowke....

and Sons. 55)—This book was well worth reprinting in " Bohn's Antiquarian Library." Mr. Fowke first gives an interesting historical sketch of the vicissitudes through which the......

Circulation By T. And A. Constable.)—dawid Laing, Who Is...

known to the general reader of to-day chiefly through Carlyle's commendation of him as the ideal editor of John Knox's works, was a very remarkable figure in the literary......

The Layman's Old Testament By H. G. Glazebrook, Canon Of

Ely. (Oxford University Press. 4s. 6d.)—Canon Glaze- brook has done the intelligent layman a great service by this volume. To some extent it covers the same ground as Mr.......

A Guide To The Mental Deficiency Act, 1913. By John

Wormald and Samuel Wormald. (P. S. King and Son. 5s. net.)-- The Law Relating to the Mentally Defective. By Herbert Davey. (Stevens and Sons. Ss. 6d.)—Two useful vottunes on the......