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The Irish Dames Of Ypres. By The Rev. Dom Patrick

Nolan. (Browne and Nolan, Dublin. 10s. 6d. net.)—The House of Ypres traces its lineage, in a way told in detail in this volume, to a com- munity founded at Brussels in 1593 by......

The Gay Gordon. By John Malcolm Bullock. (chapman And Hall.

10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Bullock does not pretend to tell the history of the Gordon clan. Nor is he relating the services of the Gordon Highlanders, for he explains that it is a......

A Happy Half - Century, And Other Essays. By Agnes...

and Hancock. 5s.)—The "happy half-century," according to Miss Repplier, lay in the list twenty-five years of the eighteenth century and the first five-and-twenty of the nine-......

About Dickens. By Henry Leff Man, M.d. (the Author, Phila-

delphia.)—A lover of Dickens may learn not a little from this volume. The first of the six essays may be taken with some probability as the occasion of the book. "Dickens's......

Shakespeare's Comedy Of "twelfth Night." Illustrated By...

(Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d. net.)-1 very handsome volume. Mr. Robinson's illustrations, numbering forty in all, are effective in colouring and design ; the paper and print......

The Investor's Shilling Handbook For 1909.. With Preface...

Henry C. Burdett, K.C.B. (Financial Review of Reviews.)—There is certainly an amazing amount of information given in this volume of four hundred and fifteen very closely printed......

Vital Economy. By John H. Clarke, M.d. (t. Fisher Unwin,

2s.)—Dr. Clarke , takes in these essays, at least in some of them, what may be described as the unpopular side. He points out that a cold bath is not always a good thing,—as Dr.......