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History Of New Zealand. By G. W. Rusden. 3 Vols.

(Melville, Mullen, and Slade, Melbourne.)—This is a reprint and second edition of the work which Mr. Rusden originally issued in London, and which involved him in such......

Information In War : Its Acquisition And Transmission. By...

George Armand Purse, C.B. (William Clowes and Sons.) —There is no standard English work on the subject of informa- tion in war, and Colonel Parse has hardly filled the gap. His......

By Tangled Paths. By H. Mead Briggs. (frederick Warne And

Co.)—The author of this pleasant, simple, unpretentious book —the appropriate second title of which is " Stray Leaves from Nature's Byways "—is not a Jefferies or a Burroughes,......

When Leaves Were Green. By Sydney Hodges. (cbatto And...

is a readable, easy-flowing story—unfor- tunately distended to three volumes—of folk more or leas "in society." What sort of folk these are may be gathered from the leading......

The Romance Of Prince Eugene. By Albert Pulitzer. Trans-...

from the French by Mrs. B. M. Sherman. (Edward Arnold.) —This work is described by its author as an idyll of the time of Napoleon I. It is the story, more particularly, of the......

George Paul Chalmers, R.s.a. By Edward Pinnington. (t....

Annan and Sons, Glasgow.)—This unreasonably bulky book has one good feature—the illustrations. From them it is possible to form an estimate of the work of Chalmers, the......