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A Notable Addition To The " Broadway Travellers " Series

is The First Englishmen in India, edited by Mr. J. Courtenay Locke (Routledge, 10s. 6d.). Here are conveniently brought together, with maps, old prints and full notes, the......

A Useful Account Of Recent Archaeological Work In...

given in Digging Up Biblical History (S.P.C.K., 12s. 6d.) by Mr. J. Garrow Duncan, who has had practical experience in Palestine, Iraq and Egypt and brings together in an......

Some Books Of The Week • Non-norms' : The Personal

Papers of Lord Bendel, edited- by F. E. Hamer ; Missing, by Talbot Baines Bruce ; The Inky Way, by Alice M. Williamson ; By Guess and by God, by William Guy Carr ; The Methods......

A Prolonged Controversy, Of Vital Importance To London,...

with patient care in Charing. Cross Bridge, by Mr. Arthur Keen, the chairman of the Thames Bridges Conference (Berm, 21s.). His exposition of the problem is illustrated with......

• Greybeards At Play, By G. K. Chesterton (sheed And

Ward. 3s. 6d.), was first published thirty years ago. Its wit and humour, however, do not "date," and the illustra- tions, by the author, are of a kind which even improve with......

Dr. Nansen, Long To Be Remembered Alike As Traveller,...

scientist and statesman, was happily inspired in his last book, Through the Caucasus to the Volga, which has been translated with care by Mr. G. C. Wheeler (Allen and Unwin,......

One Feature Of Mr. Robert Blatchford's Autobiography, My...

(Cassell, 10s. 6d.), that will surprise many readers is the amount of space and fond recollection he gives to his term of service in the Army. It is upon his soldiering days......