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A Bachelor In Japan. By Eric Erskine Wood. (t. Fisher

Unwin. 3s. 6d. net.)—A slight but attractively written account of a voyage to and holiday in Japan. Mr. Wood has the gift of gay inconsequent humour and can be very......

The Jolly Duchess.*

Ma. PEARCE gives as a sub-title " A Sixty Years' Gossiping Record of ' Stage and Society (1777 to 1837)." It would have been a fairer descrip- tion of his book if he had put......

11lediaeval Italy.*

Turf title of this book unites two names which are connected traditionally with romance. The romance of the Middle Ages, however, is to a large extent illusory, for they were......