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Current Literature

' THE PORT OF LONDON YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY. 'By D. J. Owen. With a Foreword by Lord Ritchie of DundLe. '(Port of London Authority. 7s. 6d.)-Mr. Owen, who is the general manager......

The Smoking Furnace And The Burning Lamp : Talks On

Toe H. Edited by the Rev. P. B. Clayton. (Longmans. 2s. 6d.)-The second title of this little collection of sermons explains their common aim. They are " Talks on Toc H" and......

Historical Trials. By The Late Sir John Macdonell. Edited By

R. W. Lee. (Clarendon Press. 10s.)-Lord Shaw of Dunfermline, in a graceful and judicious preface, pays tribute to the high qualities of the late Sir John Macdonell, as a lawyer......

Reparation Commission, Vol. Xiv., Official Documents, And...

Office. 7s. 6d. and 3s. net.)-The last bound volume of documents issued by the Reparation Commission contains the English text of the Dawes Reports, the Protocols and decisions......

The Buccaneers : A Brief History. By Professor A. H.

Cooper-Prichard. (Palmer. 7s. 6d.)-If there is anything novel about this fresh version of the thrice- told story of the buccaneers, it is -that the history of those ferocious......

Franz Joseph As Revealed By His Letters. Edited By Otto

Ernst. Translated by Agnes Blake. (Methuen. 15s.)-Judging by the letters here selected from among the State archives in Vienna, the late Emperor of Austria must have been a most......

The Place-names Of Worcestershire. By A. Mawer And F. M.

Stenton, in collaboration with F. T. S. Houghton. (Cambridge University Press. 20s.)-Since the late Professor Skeat showed, in his epoch-making monograph on Cambridgeshire......

A Library List

MISCELLANEOUS :-Topsy Turvy. By Vernon Bartlett. (Con- stable. 10s.) The Tibetan Book of the Dead. By W. Y. Evans-Wentz. (Oxford University Press. 16s.) -Official Motoring Map......