Some Books Of The Week.
[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent resigns.] The Quarterly Review for April opens with a frank and interest- ing article on " Eton : the Old and the......
The Development Of Rates Of Postage. By A. D. Smith.
(Allen and Unwin. 16s. net.)—Mr. Smith's elaborate study of postal rates, not merely in Great Britain but on the Continent and in America, is specially interesting in view of......
The Petition Of Right. By Frances Helen Relf. (minneapolis :
University of Minnesota. 75 cents.)—This valuable essay by an American scholar, who has already done good work on the reign of Charles I., throws an entirely new light on the......
Paris Through An Attic. By A. Herbage Edwards. (j. M.
Dent and Sons. 6s. net.)—Two students, a man and a girl, having a capital of £140, decided to marry and pursue their post-graduate studies at the Sorbonne for two years. This......
A Guide To The Representation Of The People Act, 1918.
By A. 0. Hobbs and F. G. Ogden. (Butterworth. 8s. 6d. net.)—This'reprint of the new Franchise Law, with a full commentary and index and the various Orders of the Local......
The Dawn Of Mind. By Margaret Drummond, M.a. (edward Arnold.
3s. 6d. net.)—Miss Drummond's book is a fascinating study of the psychology of babies and little children. Though the little volume is written from a scientific• standpoint, it......
Fiction.
JAMESIE.• Ix writing this sequel to Hatchways, the principal characters in which reappear after an interval of seven years, Miss Sidgwick has varied her method of presentation.......
Readable Novels.—jess Of The River. By Theodore Good-...
(John Long. 6s. net.)—A rather attractively in- genuous tale of Canadian adventure—for the reader who is not ashamed to take pleasure in the speckle and flicker of the eine-......
From Bapaume To Passchendaele, 1917. By Philip Gibbs. (w....
Os. net.)/tlany people will be glad to have this reprint of the letters which Mr. Gibbs, as the Daily Chronicle's war correspondent, sent from the front last year, describing......
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