The Maxims Of Queen Christina Of Sweden. Descartes, Who Gave
her lessons in philosophy, said of Queen Christina of Sweden—the only child of the great Gustavus Adolphus—that she was made more in the image of God than mostmen. This sentence......
Winged Wheels In France.
Winged Wheels in Prance. By Michael Myers Shoemaker. Illustrated. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 108.6d. net.)—The sensation of reading this book is very much like that of flying along......
The Treatment Of Cancer.
The Control, of a Scourge. By Charles P. Child°. (Methuen • and Co. 7s. 6d. net.) — There is a common prejudice, , which is often well grounded, against medical books which......
Their Present Form. The Series Possesses "a Certain Unity Of
character as a survey of important movements and men in the early Christian centuries." The pages dealing with the life of St. Paul are perhaps the moat interesting in the book,......
The Oriental At Close Quarters.
_To-morrop is the _East. By Douglas Story. (Chapman and Hall. 6s.)—Mr. Story seems to have the happy knack of pene- trating into the inmost council-chambers of the most......
A Manual Of Photography. . . . .
The Complete Photographer. By R. Child Bayley. (Methuen and Co. 108. 6d. net.)—Mr. Bayley, whose editorial. work on Photography has been so Inilpful to many who, like himself,......
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