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Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hays not been reserved for review in other forms.] People's Co - operative Banks. By H. C. Devine. (Cassell and Co. is.......

The _early History Of The Levant Company. By M. Epstein,

M.A. (G. Routledge and Sons. 2s. 6d. net.)—The Levant Company was the third in order of time of a series of trading corporations, its predecessors being the "Turkey Company"......

The Quarterlies.

Tax most directly political article in the Edinburgh is "Colonial Policy under the Earl of Elgin." It is a grave indictment of the Prime Minister. "Lord Elgin has virtually been......

Below And Above The Wafer - Line. By Seafarer. (whitcombe...

2s. 6d.)—" Seafarer" in these "up-to-date sketches of steamship life" gives us descriptions, illustrated by snapshas, of the various persons who work the steamship, are......