A Little House In War Time. By Agnes And Egerton
Castle. (Constable and Co. 6s.)—An agreeably written if somewhat rambling account of the everyday life of an English family during-the war. - It was no doubt a temptation to......
Scotland Yard : Its Men And Methods. By George Dilnot.
(1 Percival Marshall and Co. ls. net.)—Most of us take " Robert " (as Mr. Dilnot affectionately calls the police officer in his preface) very much, perhaps too much, for......
A Backwater Of War. By M. R.. Earle. (headley Brothers:
is. 6c1. net.)—We can warmly commend this collection of " letters from Switzerland, September to December, WIC." The writing is scholarly and thoughtful, and we quite endorse......
Stories From " The Earthly Paradise." By William Morris....
Arnold. 6s.)—Mr. C. S. Evans has chosen ten out of the twenty-four stories in William Morris's poem and has re-told them in prose for Mr. Edward Arnold's series of " Books for......
An American Garland. Edited By C. H. Firth, M.a. (b.
A. Blackwell, Oxford. 3s. 6d. net.)This is a collection of con- temporary ballads relating to the disecivery and colonization of America, and should prove most attractive to the......
Current Literature.
Charlotte Brante: the Woman. By Maude Goldring. (Elkin Mathews. 2i. 6d. net.)—Once again Charlotte Bronta and her unfortunate love story—particularly the love story—are brought......
Problems Of Astronomy.*
MOST readers take a lively interest in the curious intellectual problems so often presented by the study of astronomy. One of these may be summed up in the phrase used by the......
National Proverbs : Serbia.. (palmer And Hayward. 2s. 6d. Or
Is. net.)—This is the latest of an attractively printed series - of the 'translated sayings of various nations. Many are cosmopolitan, such as, " Three removes are as bad as one......
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