Readable Novxr.s.—ths Invisible Foe. By Mrs. Crichton...
Adapted from the Popular Play by Walter Hackett.) (Jarrolds. 6s. net.)—Like all novels adapted from plays, this smells a little of the footlights, though the writer of the story......
The Bibliography Of The Works Of Robert Louis Stevenson...
by the late Colonel Prideaux appears in a new .and much revised edition uniform with the " Pentland " Stevenson (F. Hollings, 12s. 6d. net). It is the work of Mrs. Luther S.......
Fiction.
MARY OF THE WINDS.• Tax materials for these stories and sketches, the author tells us, have been mostly gathered from old people living in the remote parts of Kerry. Therein lie......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent reviser.] The Megalithic Culture of Indonesia. By W. J. Perry. (Manchester University Press and Longmans and Co.......
Alcohol : Its Action On The Human Organism. (stationery...
2s. 6d. net.)—The Central Control Board in November, 1916, appointed an expert Advisory Committee to consider the physio- logical action of alcohol. The provisional conclusions......
The Art Of Keeping Well.t Da. Magpie Has Written An
admirably interesting book. It is intended to help the ordinary man or woman. Unlike too many writers of text-books on health, the author really keeps in view the needs of......
New Towns After The War. By New Townsmen. (j. M.
Dent and Sons. Is. net.)—In this spirited and stimulating pamphlet the authors urge that as a million new houses will be required in the five years after peace returns, mainly......
The Development Of The British West Indies, 1700-1763. By F.
W. Pitman. (H. Milford. 10s. 6d. net.)—This valuable book, based on original research, is specially interesting in regard to the trade between the West Indies and the American......
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