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In The Very Useful Series Of "the Homeland Handbooks" We

have The Chalfont Country, by S. Graveson, with Introduction by the Rev. W. H. Summers (Homeland Association, ls. net). By the "Chalfont Country" is meant a region of......

The Second Volume In The Series Of "king's Classics"...

Moring) is Royal Letters, Edited by Robert Steele (2s. 6d. net). The volume contains thirty-two letters written by Henry VII., or addressed to him, or immediately referring to......

Birds In Their Seasons. By J. A. Owen. (routledge And

Sons. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is a book full of interesting matter. The total number of " British" birds is, we are told in the preface, three hundred and sixty-seven. But about a......

The Buchanite Delusion, 1783 - 1846. By John Cameron. (r...

Dumfries. 5s.)—Elspeth Simpson or Buchan was an ill- educated woman of dubious character; Hugh White was a minister of the Relief Church in Scotland, who was expelled for......

The Natural History Of Cambridgeshire. Edited By J. E. Marr,

F.R.S., and A. E. Shipley, F.R.S. (Cambridge University Press. 4s. net.)—This volume is published contemporaneously with the Cambridge meeting of the British Association. The......

The A.b.c. Of Golf. By A. 3. Robertson. (henry J.

Drane. ls.)—This seems, as far as we are able to judge, a serviceable little book, full of practical wisdom, if readers are only able to apply it. One suggestion they can easily......

Occasional Papers (3 Lansdowne Crescent, Bournemouth, 6d....

new monthly, of which two issues (July and August) are now before us. They contain some good work. We may mention Miss S. Gertrude Ford's "Art of William Watson," and Mr. D.......

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