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Persian Literature. — By Claud Field. (herbert And...

Field does not giVe a very well ordered account of the literature of Persia, and he is more occupied with anecdotes of the lives of writers than with criticism of their works.......

Scotland End The French Revolution. By Henry W. Meikle...

: Matt:chose and Sorts. this - able mono- graph Dr:Meikle traces the influence which the French Revolution had upon the political and social development. of Scotland. He follows......

Wagner's "tristan And Isolde." By George Ainslie Hight....

5s. net.)—Mr. Hight discusses opera in general as an " art-form " in a most obscure chapter upon " Music as an art of expression." He also considers the Wagnerian drama and its......

Sore Books_ Of'. The Week;

r [Uncle,' "heading -we notice such Book(' of the week 'as 'have -not' been teserred for review other forms.) ' The Pocket Disraeli. Compiled by J. B. Lindenbaum. (Mills -and......