Mr. Edgar I. Fripp, Who Has Patiently Edited The Corpora-
tion minutes and accounts of Stratford-upon-Avon in Shake- peare's day, seems to know all the burgesses and their houses intimately. This mastery of local detail lends interest......
Sir Bampfylde Fuller, Who Entered The Indian Civil...
1873 and resigned in 1907 when he was governing Eastern Bengal, devotes half of his new book. Some Personal Memories (Murray, 12s.), to his Indian experience and half to his......
Lord Ponsonby Has Been Over-modest In His Expressed Doubt...
a collection of what he terms ephemeral and fleeting comments," Casual Observations (George Allen and Unwin, 6s.), most of which first appeared in various daily and weekly......
Dr. Friedrich Rosen, Who Has Mitten In English His Oriental
Memories of n German Diplomatist (Methuen. 15s.). was through his English wife a friend of the late Miss G-i!rnde Bell, and his charming book reminds us of her Persirm and her......
General Knowledge Questions
Dun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss A. C. Hannay, Nbils Rectory, Frome. Questions on \\-ell-known Books'......
Two Very Well Known Members Of The Corn Trade, Mr.
G. J. S. Broomhall and Mr. J. H. Hubback, have put into print their Corn Trade Memories Recent and Remote (Liverpool : Northern Publishing Company, 10s.). Much ofthe informa-......
Professor Baldwin Brown, Steadily Pursuing His Labours On...
in Early England gives in the new volume—Part I. of Volume VI. (Murray, 15s.)—elaborate descriptions of certain works associated with Anglian Northumbria in the eighth and......
The Argonaut Press Deserves Well Of All Who Arc Interested
in the history of travel. To its series i t h hie quartos, Its compet- ently edited as they are beautifully IA,. heed, is now added that most entertaining work, Alexander......
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(Continued from page 133.) That Captain Cook the great explorer was also a great gentleman is, or should be, one of the commonplaces of history. His own " Voyages " and the......
One Week-end In May An Interesting Conference Was Held At
Danford House, Midhurst, Sussex, the home of Richard Cobden, and a useful record of the proceedings is now presented under the title United States of Europe. The release on the......
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