25 MAY 1907, page 21

Current Literature.

THE SWISS MILITIA SYSTEM. The Journal of the Royal United Service Institution. (Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall. 2s.)—Those of our readers who are interested in the......

Jur5i Zayddn's Uesayyads And Dbassasids. Translated By D....

D.Litt. (Lurie and Co. 6s.)—This, the fourth volume of the "E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Series," gives us the fourth part of the "History of Islamic Civilization." (The series is the......

Richard Hooker. By Vernon Staley. (masters And Co. 3s. 6d.)

—This is the first volume of a series which Mr. Staley is to edit under the title of "The Great Churchmen Series." Lives of Andrewes, Laud, eosin, and others are to follow. The......

In Defence Of The Faith. By Sir Robert 'anderson. (hodder

and Stoughton. 6s.)—The Roman Index sometimes oontained the works of injudicious champions and exponents of truth. If we had the system in force, Sir R. Anderson's " defenoes "......

Some 3100es Of The, Week.

tusder au beading see notice such Books of the week as hiss sot been reserved for review in other forms.] The Chinese Empire: a General and Missionary Survey. Edited by Marshall......

Prisoners Of Hope.

Prisoners of Hope an Exposition of Dante's Purgatorio. By the Rev. John S. Carroll, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. ed. net.)—This interesting book is of course on the same......

Iteadable Notbls.—the Secret. By E. Phillips Oppinheim....

Co. 8e.)—A' sensational political novel describing in a series of thrilling adventures the frustrating of a German plot for the invasion of England.—In Pastures New. By George......