Nelson's History Of Lie War. By John Buchan. Vol. Xxii.
(Nelson. 2s. 6d. net.)—Colonel Buchan calls his new volume "The Darkest Hour." He relates the progress of the German offensive from March to July last, with &chapter on......
Professor' W. R. Sorley's Recent British Academy Lecture...
(H. Milford, Is. 6d. net) has been printed and deserves reading, as a thoughtful tribute to the seventeenth-century Jewish philosopher, who was indeed a master-mind.......
History Of The Civil War, 1861-65. By J. F. Rhodes.
(Mac- millan. 12s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Rhodes, whose three-volume work on the American Civil War is very well known, has written a new history of the war in a single volume. It is......
Selections From Sainte-beuve. Edited By Arthur Tilley....
Press. fis. net.)—Mr. Tilley has done a service to those who like Sainte-Bentye, but are discouraged from reading him by the formidable aspect of the collected Causeries du......
These Were The Men. (marshall Brothers. 3a. 6d. Net.)— Mrs.
Jaquet has made an interesting anthology of poems of the war, including some examples of the late Rupert Brook; of Sir Henry Newbolt, Mr. Binyon, and other well-known poets. A......
Sir Henry Lawson Has Reprinted As A Sixpenny Pamphlet His
instructive article on Our Army of the Future : the Need for Decentralisation, which we noticed on its appearance in the Nineteenth Century for March. It may be hoped that the......
We Have Received The First Quarterly Number Of A New
series of the Canadian Bookman, edited by Mr. B. K. Sandwell (Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Garden City Press, 50 cents). It is a very attractive magazine. Twelve prominent Canadians......
Railway Reorganisation. By A Railway Officer. (e. And F. N.
Spon. 6s. 6d. net.)—It has occurred to many people, on hearing that our British railways would show a deficit of £100,000,000 this year, that there must be something very wrong......
The Ecclesiastical Commission. By Sir Lewis T. Dibdin And S.
E. Downing. (Macmillan. Is. net.)—The First Church Estates Commissioner and the Secretary present in this pamphlet a lucid and authoritative history of the Ecclesiastical......
The Akathist Hymn And Little Compline. (williams And...
net.)—This neat little book contains the Greek text, faced by an excellent English version, of the hymn which is sung in the Greek Church during Lent, especially on the Friday......
The Silk Industry And Tradl. By R. C. Romney. (p.
S. King. 10s. 6d. net.)—The Indian economist who has written this severely technical treatise on the silk industry, especially in Great Britain and France, is concerned to......
The German Empire, 1867-1914. By W. H. Dawson. Vol. L
(Allen and Unwin, and Jarrold. 16s. net.)—Mr. Dawson begins his spirited history of modern Germany with the fall of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, and does not reach his nominal......
Lord Chamwood Has An Admirable Article On " The Problem
of the Humanities in English Education " in the April number of the Anglo-French Review (Dent, 2s. 6d. net). There must, he thinks, be "some curtailment of classics in schools,"......
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