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A Short History Of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1123-1923....

D'Arcy Power and H. J. Waring. (Copies to be had of Mr. Geoffrey Keynes, at the Hospital. I Is. post free.) The octocentenary of " Bart's " is worthily commemorated in this......

The Sea.

Admirals of the Caribbean. By Francis Russell Hart, F.R.G.S. (Allen and Unwin. IN. f3d. net.) "With the dawning of a new century (the nineteenth)," writes Mr. Hart, "the......

History.

The Development of the British Empire. By Howard Robinson, Ph.D. (Constable and Co. 12s. ad. net.) This book is not so much a collection of dates and facts as conclusions drawn......

Captain Anderson's Narrative Is So Ingenuous As To Be...

Even while we felt that the author bad no power of giving literary effectiveness to his reminiscences we were saying to ourselves "What a nice man he must be ! " It is not often......

The Arts In Greece. By F. A. Wright. (longmans. 6.s.)

Mr. Wright is so ardent a Philhellene that in attributing everything we value in art and life to the Perielean Age he ignores the revolutionizing influence of Christianity. Most......

The Diary Of Ananda Ranga Mai. Edited By H. Dodwell.

Vol. VII. (Madras : Government Press. 3 rupees.) The Diary of Ananda Ranga Mai. Edited by H. Dodwell. Vol. VII. (Madras : Government Press. 3 rupees.) The new instalment of the......

It Is Impossible Not To Be Sorry For Professor Van

Dyke. After spending ten years' work on his• book, two of which were devoted to the study of unprinted material in Europe, when his task was completed and his manuscript in the......

"houses," Says Mr. Ransome, "are But Badly Built Boats So

firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary, incapable of......