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The Trend. By William Arkwright. (john Lane. 6s.)— This Is

a mystical romance dealing with a young composer who accidentally finds a boy with a wonderful tenor voice in the streets and trains him to sing the principal part in his own......

Industrial And Commercial Geography. By J. Russell Smith....

Co. 15s. net.)—The author of this solid and comprehensive work is Professor of Industry in the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania. His aim is "to......

Dodo The Second. By E. F. Benson. (hodder And Stoughton.

6s.)—" Forty years do change a girl so," as was pointed out some time ago in the pages of Punch, and twenty years seer* to have had the same disastrous effect in the case of......

Golf For Women. By George Duncan. (t. Werner Laurie. 3s.

6d. net.)—We remember an article that appeared in an early number of the Cornhill Magazine, some time in the "sixties," which aimed at showing that woman's place on the links—to......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading ves notice such Books 0 the web as hams not rem reserved for review en other forms.] The Wilds of .31aoriland. By James Mackintosh Bell. Macmillan and Co.......

By The Waters Of Germany. By Norma Lorimer. (stanley Paul

and Co. 12s. 6d. net.) — Miss Lorimer's agreeable blend of travel with sentiment is shown to advantage in this light- hearted account of a summer holiday in the Black Forest and......

Readable Novelb. — The Amazing Partnership. By E....

Co, 3s. 6d.)—This story deals with a young man and a young woman who make an informal partnership in criminal investigation. Their adven- tared are sometimes exciting, but the......

The Quaternary Ice Age. By W. B. Wright. (macmillan And

Co. 17s. net.)—This learned volume represents the study of a lifetime. Mr. Wright, who is attached to the Geological Survey of Ireland, began with the intention of supplying a......

Edmund Spenser And The Impersonations Of Francis Bacon....

G. Harman. (Constable and Co. 16s. net.)—The craze for attributing nearly the whole of Elizabethan literature to Bacon is one of the most curious literary aberrations that have......

Lotteries Of Circumstance. By R. C. Lynegrove. Methuen...

6s.) — It seems rather a pity that Mr. Lynegrove should have chosen the form of a novel to convey his evidently intimate knowledge of German domestic life. What he is really......