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The Laudable Work Of Publishing Parish Records Is Being...

undertaken in Shropshire by the Shropshire Parish Register Society, of which wo have been sent the latest publication (privately printed : Mr. G. W. S. Sparrow, Albrighton Hall,......

The Department Store: A Novel Of To-day. By Margaret Balms:.

Translated from the German by Ethel Colburn Mayne. (D. Appleton and Co. 6a.)—In strong contrast to the novel just noticed, dealing with "nobly born" personages in Germany, is......

Diary Of Gideon Welles. With An Introduction By John T.

Morse, jun. 3 vols. (Constable and Co. 42s. net.)—All students of the American Civil War will be glad of the publication of this diary of Welles,who was Secretary of the Navy......

Watford's County Families. (spottiswoodo And Co....

this volume, now appearing for the fifty- second time, is that it is a "Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland." There are......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forma All the World's Air-Craft. Edited by Fred T. Jane. (Sampson Low. 21s.......

Copyright : Its History And Its Law. By Richard Rogers

Bowker. (Constable and Co. 21e. not.)—Authors will be pleased to know of this summary of the principles of copyright, which is written with special reference to the American......

Daphne In The Fatherland. (andrew Melrose. 6s.)—this...

an account of a girl's adventures in Berlin, where she moves in the highest circles. As, however, she has not been presented at home, she has to see a Court from no more......

The Posthumous Essays Of John Churton Collins. Edited By L.

C. Collins. (J. M. Dent and Sons. Os. net.)—A collection of a dozen papers upon miscellaneous literary subjects by the late Professor Churton Collins is sure to find many......

Mayhew's Who's Who In Finance (parliamentary Section)....

Mayhew. (The Compiler: 4 Pall Mall Place, London. 25s. not.)—Colonel Mayhew has put together a list of tho directorships held by various members of Parliament. The list contains......

Readable Novels.—the Prince And Betty. By P. G....

and Boon. 6s.)—A lively little sketch concerned chiefly with an American millionaire who wishes to start a rival to Monte Carlo in an island in the Mediterranean.—Kingfisher......

Through Polynesia And Papua. By Frank Burnett. (francis...

6d. net.)—There is nothing noteworthy about Mr. Burnett's book except the profusion of photographic illustra- tions—his sub-title is "Wanderings with a Camera "—and the attacks......