White Shadows In The South Seas. By Frederick O'brien....
Laurie. 25s. net.)—The Marquesas have fascinated many a traveller. Mr. O'Brien, who describes the islands and their people in this attractive and well-illustrated, book, came......
The Life And Letters Of John Fiske. By John Spencer
Clark. 2 vols. (Houghton Mifflin. 52s. net.)—In these portly volumes the life of the well-known American historian and philosopher is told at length. He was born at Middletown,......
The Women's Victory—and After. By Millicent Garrett...
Jackson. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Fawcett has written her personal reminiscences of the campaign for woman's suffrage from 1911 to 1918. She is entitled to rejoice over the success of......
Poems Worthy Of Consideration.—low/on Sonnets. By Humbert...
Blackwell. 2s. 6d. net.)—Excel - lent minor verse.—Poems : In Time - of War. In Tim: of Peace. By C. Kennett Burrow. (Coffins. 5s. net.)—The poem upon a little French girl,......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent rertew.i Coal Mining and the Coal Miner. By H. F. Bulman. (Methuen. 15s. net.)—Mr. Bulman, who has been a......
My Reminiscences Of East Africa. By General Von Lettow-...
(Hurst and Blackett. 24s. net.)—The German com- mander in East Africa has written a spirited account of his experiences. He admits that he expected war, perhaps in 1914, and was......
Memoires D'outre . Tombe. Par Chateaubriand. Books Viii....
A. Hamilton Thompson. (Cambridge Univer- sity Press. 4s. net.)—It was a happy idea to reprint the portion of Chateaubriand's memoirs which describes his life as a Royalist exile......
Building The Pacific Railway. By Edwin L. Sabin. (lippin-...
8s. net.)—Mr. Sabin's sub-title is "A Romance of Ameri- , -"'tan Achievement.' It is fully justified. The construction of the railway from Omaha to San Francisco in the six......
The South African Commonwealth. By Manfred Nathan, K.c....
Cape Town : Specialty Press. London : Hodder and Stoughton. 30s. net.)—Mr. Nathan, a South African by birth and a member of the Transvaal Provincial Council, has written an......
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