Maternity And Child Welfare : A Plea For The Little
Ones. With Illustrations from the Bradford Scheme. By E. J. Smith. (P. S. King and Son. ls. net.)—Mr. Smith, the Chairman of the Health Committee of the Bradford Corporation, is......
Lost Face. By Jack London. (mills And Boon. 6s.)— Most
of these short stories tell of the adventurous lives of white men and of natives on the Yukon River. Some are tragedies, some comedies; some, and among them the best, are......
Mr. Walter A. Dyer Has Dedicated To The Commission For
Relief in Belgium a little story of the lesser tragedies of the war, called Pierrot, Dog of Belgium (Duckworth and Co., 2s. 6d. net). It is charmingly written, without a trace......
A History Of The Gold Coast And Ashanti, By Dr.
W. Walton Claridge (John Murray, 2 vols., 36s. net), covers the whole period from the time of the earliest records of that part of West Africa down to the beginning of the......
Conscription. By John Kent. (newspaper Publicity Co., 61...
6d. net.)—Mr. Kent's handy little booklet on "National Service, Industrial and Military," makes a timely appearance. Re describes the French, German, and Swiss systems of......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Notice in this cotstmn does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.' Mr. Hartley Withers has written an excellent pamphlet upon War and Self.Denial (J. M. Dent and Sons,......
Essex: A Dictionary Of The County, Mainly...
Worley (G. Bell and Sons, 5a. net), is an excellent local guide-book for those interested in church architecture. The parishes are arranged alphabetically, and a short account......
Readable Novels. —around Old Chester. By Margaret Deland....
6s.)—Although Mrs. Deland is less successful in the domain of the short story than in her full-length novels, her romances of Chester in the days of crinolines are pleasant......
Penelope's Postscripts. By Kate Douglas Wiggin. (hodder...
6d.)—Penelope has reappeared in a hook which is just a memory of a life other than that which we now live, the life of the years before 1914. The little accounts of her days in......
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