Some Books Of Tiie Week.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for Teriew in other forms.] provides us with two very good reasons for wishing it every success.......
Undergrowth. By F. And E. Brett Young. (martin Seeker....
is a Welsh novel dealing with the construction of a dam. The hero, a Scottish engineer named Forsyth, finds himself quite unable to believe in the sinister fate which overhangs......
The Custom Of The Country. By Edith Wharton. (macmillan And
Co. 6s.)—It is hardly fair to class Mrs. Wharton's new novel under the simple heading of "Fiction." Here is indeed the story of an American girl who is dominated by a social......
News From The Duchy. By " Q." (bristol : J. W.
Arrow- smith. 6s.)—The most attractive story in this collection is the first, which deals with the flower industry in the Scilly Islands. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, however,......
Richard Wagner : Composer Of Operas. By John F. Runciman.
(George Bell and Sons. 10s. fid. net.)—This is at once a life of the composer and a commentary upon his work. It contains much sound criticism and fresh apprecia- tion;......
Messrs. Stanford Have Sent Us A Copy Of Their New
Library Chart of the World, 1913. This finely produced map is drawn to an equatorial scale of three hundred and fifty nautical miles to the inch. It may be obtained in four......
Readable Novels.—phyllida Flouts Me. By Mary L. Pendered....
Boon. 6s.)—A cheerful little story of the manner in which a rustic coquette was brought to her bearings.—A Midsummer Rose. By Katharine Tynan. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.)—A......
Booxs Op Reference.—debretes Peerage, Baronetage,...
by Arthur G. M. Hesilrige. (Dean and Son. 31s. 6d. net.)—The names of the sons and daughters of knights (with particulars as to their births, marriages, etc.) have been added to......
The "sign Of The Flying Fame" (45 Roland Gardens, S.w.),
some of whose publications we have already noticed, have sent us a further collection of broadsides (2d. plain, 4d. coloured) and chap-books (6d., or hand-coloured 2s. 6d2).......
Winter Sports In Switzerland. By E. F. Benson....
colour by C. Fleming Williams, and with photographs by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond. (George Allen and Co. 15s. net.)— Mr. E. F. Benson has written an intermittently amusing book,......
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