Aubrey House, Kers Gton. Compiled By Florence M....
12s.) An unpretentious history of Aubrey House once Notting Hill House), one of the oldest residences in ieuington, and of the people who have lived in it. The reCOrd rather......
Silkstone. By The Rev. Joseph F. Prince. (penistone J. H.
Wood. 12s. (3d. net.) The Vicar of Silkstone has made an excellent contribution to the literature of what may be called the regional survey. His account of "the History and......
Doctor Johnson At Cambridge. By S. C. Roberts. (putnam's....
6d.) This is an unpretentious little book, containing eight essays. They are a pleasant pastiche of Boswell, and describe the adventures of Dr. Johnson in modem Cambridge,......
The Swarthmoor Tragedy. By E. P. Frankland. (stockwell....
deal of interest may be found in an altogether improbable story when it is as efficiently put together as this one. The Yorkshire dales and the old house nine miles from a......
Rebuilding The Walls. By The Bishop Of London. (wells...
8s. (3d.) REBUILDING THE WALLS. By the Bishop of London. (Wells Gardner. 8s. (3d.) The distinctive note of these sermons is their simplicity. The secret of the Bishop of......
The Ninth Vibration. By L. Adams Beck. (new York: Mcclelland
and Stewart.)—This volume contains a series of "Jong" short stories—all of a highly mystical character—dealing with the Far Rast, a term which must be taken to include China.......
The Really Romantic Age. By L. Allen Harker. (murray. 7s.
6d. net.)—When a spinster lady of forty adopts an infant at the request of his dying mother there is sure to be trouble. Parents will smile at the heroine's experiences with......
Pied Piper's Street. (bristol : J. W. Arrowsmith, Ltd. 5s.
net.) It is rather a pity that Miss Friedlaender's essays should be cast hi so definite and formal a mould. They nearly all begin with an aphoristic saying. They build up,......
The Revolving Fates. By Essex Smith. (hutchin- Son. 7s....
novel has a plot based on the recurrence in successive generations of extraordinary ties between brother and sister in _a family called Lee. This peculiarity is traced back to a......
The Christian Doctrine Of Peace. Edited By The Late James
Hastings, D.D. (T. and T. Clark. 8s. net.) The late Dr. James Hastings did more to promote religious studies in the English-speaking Churches than any one man of his generation.......
Environment. By Phyllis E. Bentley. (sidgwick And...
net.)—This book is intended to repre- sent the effects of environment on a given character. The author, however, does not - entirely succeed in making her point. Her - book is a......
Breath Of Life. By Arthur Tuckerman. (putnam's. 7s....
whether among the rich set of New York, before the mast in a cargo4Krat, or in the thick of a revolution in the Caribbean. Its naive directness is rather hireable.......
Old Master Drawings. By Henry Scipio Reitlingers....
86s. net.) OLD MASTER DRAWINGS. By Henry Scipio Reitlingers. (Constable and Co. 86s. net.) Mr. Reitlingers's book will be disappointing if it is glanced at casually, and......
Madame Valcour's Lodger. By Florence Olmstead. (hurst And...
6d.)—A young man finds a formula for synthetic rubber. He becomes engaged to a rather vulgar girl, though he is really in love with another of good birth and breeding. This......
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