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Best Exemplified By A Brief Analysis Of The First. Walter

Soott published in "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" a balled entitled "Jamie Telfer of the Fair Dodhead." It relates how Jamie Telfer had his cattle lifted by raiders......

Warwickshire. Painted By Fred Whitehead. Described By...

and C. Black. 20s. net.) —Sussex. Painted by Wilfred Ball. (Same publishers. 20s. net.)—We have eften had occasion to speak in terms of well-deserved praise of this series of......

In The Series Of The "swedish Touring Club's Guides" We

have Sweden, Edited by the Swedish Touring Club, a Second and Revised Edition (Thos. Cook and Son, 4s. net), a useful book with every detail that the traveller can find useful.......

Rome. By Eustace Reynolds-ball. (a. And C. Black. 2s. 6d.)

—This volume is well described as "A Practical Guide to Rome and its Environs." It is thoroughly businesslike and practical, and shows at the same time a full knowledge of the......

The Achenese. By Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje. Translated By The

late A. W. S. O'Sullivan. 2 vols. (Luzac and Co. 32s. net.)— A more complete account of a nation has, we imagine, never been given than this. It is the work of an official whom......

Songs Of The Oar, With "de Omnibus Rhymes." By F.

J. Cox. (F. Griffiths. 3s. 6d. net.)—The " Car" is the motor-car, not finding its way into verse now for the first time, but never before, as far as we are aware, at adequately......

The French Blood In America. By Lucian J. Fordick. (fleming

H. Revell and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—We are quite prepared to admit the services which Protestantism, and French Protestantism in particular, has rendered to the world. We should......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we tidies such Books of the week as have not been reserved for roviem in other forms.] Portraits anti Jewels of Mary Stuart. By Andrew Lang. (J. MacLehose......