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Pan's Garden. By Algernon Blackwood. Illustrated By W. G....

(Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Blackwood gives us another of his books which are valuable because utterly beyond the ordinary. His aim in these " Nature Stories " is to present......

Things I Can Tell. By Lord Rossmore. (eveleigh Nash. 10s.

6d net.)—It is to be feared that these reminiscences of an Irish peer are likely to be best appreciated by cynics and snobs. The middle- class subscriber to a circulating......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Tinder this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not lawn reserved for rewew in other Jenne.] Absolutism in Croatia. By R. W. Seton-Watson. (Constable and Co. 2s.......

Fiction.

PRIDE OF WAR.* THOUGH the Turco-Italian war has been singularly unfruitful in practical results, it has already begun to throw up some curious by-products. Notable amongst these......

The Piano - Player Review. (3 Newhall. Street,...

possess piano-players may be glad to hear of this new monthly periodical. It is intended to give information of every sort likely to be of service to users of mechanical......

Mary Foshan. By Mrs. Bollix Lowndes. (methuen And Co....

Mrs. Belloc Lowndes has an ingenious plot in her present book, there seems to be a slight danger of her over- writing. The story is rather thinner than those which she published......

Readable Novels.—the Bakes Progress. By Marjorie Bowen....

Son. 2s. net.)—A story of the fashionable world in London a century ago. We miss the historical setting which has elsewhere inspired the authoress.—The Holiday Round. By A. A.......