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repent and revert to those ideals which have kept womanhood essentially sane

wick. (Arnold, 68.)

As marking the differentiation in thought and character severally in three men and two women (each far from negligible a type) this book could hardly be bettered. One man is pitiable, one is despicable, and the third is heroic

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all foils to one another. It is the same with the two principal women: the disingenuous worldly mother, with her air of simplicity, is a striking contrast to the strained intellectuality of her daughter. On the other hand, the claim made that we have here an exposition of the conflict of ideals held responsible by many for the present rending of Europe is, in our opinion, but little justified. The failure from that point of view lies, to our mind, in the delineation of the chief male character as a representative of Nietzschean philosophy in theory and practice.

The reviewer has no special knowledge of Nietzsche as a man ; has Mrs. de Sélincourt? If what we have here is good portraiture, he must have been, as the author intimates, a most remarkable instance of incompatibility between a man and his work. As to his philosophy, were there nothing more in Nietzschean doctrine than we learn from these pages, it would hardly, we think, imbue a nation with ideals capable of making it a serious rival to another calling itself Christian, however slackly that creed may be followed. Some of the views expressed by the exponent of Nietzsche were more the underlying causes of the revolutionary spirit at the end of the eighteenth century than of our present warfare, and we have

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reason to believe that a Nietzschean philosophy embraces the idea of an eternal return without progress. futility and aridity of such an existence would, we agree with the heroine, not be worth contending for; and wrong-headed (and wrong-hearted) as our enemies may be, the bigness of their ideas is only dwarfed by comparison with the infinity of the Christian ideal. In fact, we get but occasional glimpses of the Teutonic philosophy as the majority understand it :

“I should behave towards Ludwig as he in his writings counsels the strong to behave towards the weak; I should ride him down. I agree with Ludwig, altogether, that life is a craving, conquering force, and that the good of the few cannot be reconciled with the good of the many."

The representative of Christianity is far more convincing, though on general grounds we regret that he is cumbered with physical disability. To the physicalforce school Christian ethics are too often the guiding principle of those afflicted either in body or mind.

With the drawing of the women characters we are well pleased. The heroine is a contemporary product of transitory feministic ideas, attracted temporarily to the policy of force, but quick to

sentative of a class whose worldly balance compels our admiration while we regret its selfishness. Though the characters do not convince us as being altogether representative of differing schools of thought and philosophy, they yet give utterance to opinions as far-reaching as they are unusual amid the superficialities

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of life. "The flesh has its claim, if no higher claim proscribes it," is better maxim to-day than crude denunciation of what are in many cases natural appetites rather than vices.

The author shows both intuition and vividness in realizing habits of thought, as in this extract:

Horribly frightened by a picture she had seen, she ran, in the hotel where they were staying, to the bath-room, undressed quickly, and sank down into a tub of deep hot water, closing her eyes and steeping herself in the obliterating sensuous pleasure. And again :

She seemed to see him, always, walking on the verge of perils from which her own hand was too feeble to withhold him and to pray that some stronger hand would be stretched forth to draw him to safety; as silhouetted tragically against the sky, and if one watched, helplessly, a somnambulist knelt in the street below, silent and supplicating."

We advise readers who did not see our paragraph of last week concerning this novel to pay no regard to the note which follows the title-page, and to free themselves for a few hours from the cloud with which a certain school of thought oppresses us. Then they will enjoy a brilliant conception of the interplay of temperaments such as has ever been the theme of real

novelists.

Her Royal Highness. By William Le
THERE is little doubt that
Queux. (Hodder & Stoughton, 6s.)

"the public are in ignorance of the world
behind the walls of the Royal Palace, the
pomp, the splendour, the officialdom, and,
alas! the constant intrigue."
Consequently, Mr. Le Queux proceeds to
enlighten them as to the doings and
sayings of monarchs and ministers, prin-
cesses and master-spies, choosing as his
sphere of operation Egypt, ever mysterious
to those who have not seen it, and
Italy under the rule of Umberto III.; and
as his hero a virtuous and enterprising
young English diplomat whose father was

the only diplomat whom Umberto III.'s father, the late King Victor, ever trusted

with a secret.'

IT needs some persistence of effort to make any clear mental picture of the numerous figures which crowd the stage on which this San Franciscan Saturday's Child' is set as jeune première. It must also be said that the sombre surroundings in which she is first met do not make an exhilarating background. Yet Mrs. Norris maintains her place amongst the first of those writers who make the American home as it is to-day their special subject. She is able to depict, with a wealth of detail, the life not only of the smart set, but also of its pendant at the other end of the social scale. Something of a business girl's life and of a journalist's career enters into the composition of the story, too. Arresting phrases or sparkling epigrams are rarely to be found, but there

are welcome flashes of real mother-witshrewd, kindly, and practical. A wholesome sanity of outlook, no little skill in characterization, and a balanced judgment as to the essentials and non-essentials of a happy life are characteristic of this novel.

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The Admirable Carfew. The Admirable Carfew. By Edgar Wallace. (Ward, Lock & Co., 6s.) THESE stories appeared originally in The Windsor Magazine, which may serve to explain an anomaly at the beginning. We meet two Carfews, the one a successful and even renowned journalist, the other a mere boy-adventurer from the provinces. The boy gets a start by using the name of the man, and we begin to expect complications; but the man disappears completely, and leaves his young namesake an open field. The latter has a multitude of adventures, out of which he emerges with varying success. reorganizes a big boot-making company, writes and stages a play, rescues a young Spanish (?) prince, salves a big passenger boat in the Bay of Biscay, and, in fact, sees Life with a big L at an age when most youths are still under the orders of their Chief Clerk. The stories are readable and amusing, but we think Carfew No. 1 might have been given at least another entry on the scene.

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Publishers' Autumn Announcements

We make below a further selection from the numerous paragraphs sent to us for insertion under the above heading.

Theology.

Spiritual Healing. By the Rev. W. F. Совв. (Bell.)- Dr. Cobb examines the attitude of the medical profession towards the subject, and shows in a short historical survey how uniformity of phenomena is disclosed in all ages from primitive to modern times. The phenomena of Lourdes and of Christian Science are discussed, and a chapter is added on Miracles, with the intention of showing that the phenomena of Spiritual Healing are as truly subject to law as those of ordinary medical practice.

The Grand Assize. By A HUMBLE CLERK. (Heinemann.) In this book typical representatives of humanity appear at the Grand Assize before Christ: the Plutocrat and the Derelict, the Drunkard and the Grande Dame, the Politician and the Daughter of Joy, with other well-defined types. At this great final bar of justice there are no witnesses, no jury, nor plaintiff, nor spectators, but all vindicate their lives as best they can. They are defended by ghostly counsel, and receive judgment. The pseudonym of the author represents, we learn, one of the leading clerics of our day.

Miracles of the New Testament. By the REV. A. C. HEADLAM, D.D. (John Murray.)— This work contains the Moorhouse Lectures, which were delivered in Melbourne during the spring of the present year. They are an attempt to treat the various problems arising out of the belief in miracles in relation to current ideas of science, philosophy, and criticism. A definition is suggested of miracles, and their evidential value is discussed. Law.

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War and its Legal Consequences. Вy THOMAS BATY and PROF. J. H. MORGAN. (John Murray.) The effect of war on the position of private individuals raises many points of Constitutional and International Law which are only to be found discussed in elaborate or rare treatises, which are alike technical and expensive. Some of the most insistent problems are scarcely touched upon even in such volumes as those alluded to. The powers of the Crown in defence of the realm-the power of alien enemies to contract-the precise nature of trading with the enemy "-the status of alien companies: these and many other questions require elucidation and examination in the light of modern conditions. So, too, does the scope of the Moratorium and of the Courts Emergency Powers Act. Such an examination is here undertaken. The results, though it is believed they are adequate to the needs of the legal profession, are expressed in a form designed to suit the general public and the mercantile world. A chapter on the Neutrality of Belgium is included.

Poetry.

Dreams and Realities. By LIONEL BIRCH. (Methuen.) The key-notes of this volume of poems are delight in the world of nature and a far-reaching faith in the world of humanity. In verse varying in form and mood-lyric, descriptive, narrative, and

Windrush and Evenlode. By HENRY BAER(Methuen.)-This is Mr. Baerlein's first collection of his own verses; but he is well known through the success which has attended his verse translations into English of Bulgarian folk-songs, and of old Arabian poetry in three volumes of the Wisdom of the East" Series. A few of the pieces have appeared in The Nation, and one in Mr. Lucas's anthology 'The Open Road.'

Songs of Angus. By VIOLET JACOB. (John Murray.) A small book of Scottish verse, written in the language of the Angus country-side, and containing a Preface by Mr. John Buchan. The various poems express different moods and subjects-love, loss, conviviality, exile, and the homely interests of working men and women.

A Volume of New Poems. By ROBERT BROWNING and ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. With an Introduction and Notes by SIR FREDERIC C. KENYON. (Smith & Elder.)-The volume includes all the unpublished poems by Browning that are known to exist, and a selection from much that is available of Mrs. Browning's early work.

history and Biography. The Empire and the United States, a Review of their Relations during the Century of Peace following the Treaty of Ghent. By WILLIAM ARCHIBALD DUNNING. With an Introduction by the RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT BRYCE, and a Preface by NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, President of Columbia University. (Allen & Unwin.) -This book forms part of the celebration of the Treaty of Ghent Centenary. The Life and Works of Treitschke. (Allen & Unwin.)-A biography of the German philosopher whose teaching is directly responsible for the Prussian method in German politics, and has inspired General von Bernhardi. Acton pronounced him to be the one writer of history who is more brilliant and powerful than Droysen; he writes with the force and fire of Mommsen of a time remembered by living men, and pregnant with problems that still are open. He marshals his forces on a broader front than any other man, and accounts for the motives that stir the nation as well as for the councils that govern it."

Memories of Forty Years. By PRINCESS CATHERINE RADZIWILL. (Cassell.)-Here the reader will meet with kings and emperors, queens and princesses, courtiers and writers, poets and politicians, leaders of society, and many notables who have influenced, from the inside, European history.

Some Old Scots Judges: Anecdotes and ImWith pressions. By W. FORBES GRAY. 12 portraits in sepia from old prints and paintings. (Constable.)-A collection of stories, chiefly of the eighteenth century, when the claims of justice and the bottle often met in the hearts of Scotch judges. Mr. Gray has brought together much

material from widely scattered sources, and the curious illustrations, mounted on tinted paper, form an amusing commentary on the strange personalities treated in the book.

Famous Edinburgh Students. Introduction by W. SCOTT STEVENSON. 22 full-page portraits in photogravure. (Foulis.)-Some of the chief contents are 'Oliver Goldsmith,' by Oliphant Smeaton; Sir Walter Scott,' by Prof. G. Saintsbury; Charles Darwin,' by Prof. J. Arthur Thomson; Dr. John Brown,' by Dr. A. Crum Brown; Thomas Carlyle,' by Sir Jas. Crichton Browne; 'James Boswell,' by Sir Wm. Robertson Nicoll; R. L. Stevenson,' by Dr. John Kelman; William Drummond of Hawthornden,' by Mr. Blyth Webster, &c. The reader will find in the articles, many of them written by famous Edinburgh students of a later date, a number of interesting facts connected with the earlier days of Edinburgh A Great Peace Maker: the Diary of James University. Gallatin, Secretary to Albert Gallatin, 1813-1827. (Heinemann.)-James Gallatin was the son and private secretary of Albert Gallatin, the maker of the Peace of Ghent, concluded in December, 1814. This diary describes the mission of Albert Gallatin to Europe in the interest of peace, his negotiations during two years in London and St. Petersburg, and finally in Ghent. It deals also with life in Paris, when Albert Gallatin was appointed American Ambassador to Louis XVIII., and in London when he was Special Ambassador at the Court of St. James's. A Misjudged Monarch. By H. IMRERT TERRY. (Heinemann.)-Mr. Imbert Terry presents in this volume an unconventional portrait of King Charles II. He makes no attempt to whitewash him, but endeavours to give his readers the same impression of the man and king as he himself gained when studying the contemporary writers-viz., that Charles was above all a gentleman.

The Lonely Nietzsche. By FRAU FÖRSTERNIETZSCHE. With Portraits. Uniform with The Young Nietzsche.' Edited by DR. OSCAR LEVY. (Heinemann.)—The present book recounts the latter part of Nietzsche's life. The biography is written by his sister, who from the earliest, as is seen in 'The Young Nietzsche,' tended him, admired him, and gleaned from him every of scrap paper that she could get hold of. A Playmate of Philip II. By LADY MORETON. (Lane.)-Don Martin IV. was a distinguished member of one of the first families in Spain, and lived at a time when Spain was at the height of her glory. He was the playmate and afterwards the close friend of Philip II. (the husband of Queen Mary of England), and accompanied him on his visit to this country. The material for the book has been principally drawn from private sources. It contains some illustrations from the family portraits.

Ernest Dowson, 1888-1897. Reminiscences, Unpublished Letters, and Marginalia. (Elkin Mathews.)-The troubled history of Ernest Dowson is here written from the point of view of an intimate and very old friend.

A Literary Friendship: Letters to the Lady Alwyne Compton from Thomas Westwood, Poet and Railway Director, 1869-1875. Edited by LADY ALWYNE COMPTON. (John Murray.)—These letters are written by a poet who appreciated

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other poets. It is interesting to see how men of letters of the last generation looked to their contemporaries. Also, in these days of hurry and telephones, it is pleasant to be taken back to a time when friends had leisure to write their minds, as well as their hearts, in their letters. Emma Darwin : Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896. Edited by her Daughter, HENRIETTA LITCHFIELD. 2 vols. (John Murray.)-This biography of Mrs. Charles Darwin was originally written for her grandchildren, and privately printed in 1904. It consists mainly of letters written by members of the Allen, Wedgwood, and Darwin families between 1792 and 1896. A collection of old letters written by Mrs. Darwin's mother (Mrs. Josiah Wedgwood) and her sisters was found amongst Mrs. Darwin's papers. By including many of these the editor has been enabled to picture the country life of an English family in the first half of the nineteenth century. Incidentally they throw light on several figures in the Holland House circle. The second volume includes many unpublished letters of Charles Darwin, which supplement his biography by giving some idea of the more intimate side of his life. The Tory Tradition: Bolingbroke, Burke, Disraeli, Salisbury. By GEOFFREY G. BUTLER. (John Murray.)—This book consists of four lectures originally delivered before the University of Pennsylvania, and dealing respectively with Bolingbroke, Burke, Disraeli, and Lord Salisbury. The author's purpose is to show that Toryism can be constructive, and does not consist merely in systematized class selfishness. He uses the historical method, but at the end of each lecture discusses the bearing upon present (for the most part economic) problems of the teaching of each of the statesmen whose work and ideals he discusses.

Eton in the Eighties. BY ERIC PARKER• (Smith & Elder.)-This record carries on the Etonian tradition from the point reached by the Hon. Gilbert Coleridge's 'Eton in the Seventies.'

Geography and Travel.

The Conquest of Mount Cook. By F. Du FAUR. (Allen & Unwin.)-An account of the New Zealand Alps and the mountaineering achievements of an Australian girl who made a complete traverse of Mount Cook and other ascents that no climber had hitherto accomplished.

A Far Journey. By ABRAHAM MITRIE RIHBANY. (Constable.) This life-story of a Syrian, now a prominent American minister, describes the country and customs of his youth.

A Pilgrim's Scrip. By R. CAMPBELL THOMPSON. With illustrations from photographs by the author. (Lane.)-The author has travelled widely in Asia Minor, the Soudan, Tripoli, and elsewhere as an excavator of ancient remains. The present book deals with the human side of his travels, and gives a picture of strange men in strange lands. With the Tin Gods. By MRS. HORACE

TREMLETT. With 24 illustrations from photographs. (Lane.) Mrs. Tremlett went with her husband and some other members of a syndicate on a journey in search of tin in Northern Nigeria. This book is a racy account of their adventures, and is illustrated by some excellent photographs taken on the spot.

Seven Years on the Pacific Slope. By MRS. HUGH FRASER. (Werner Laurie). Tells the tale of a mother and a son who settle on the hills above the Pacific, and shows the obvious authority of personal experience. There are living descriptions of the people with whom Mrs. Fraser and her son mixed, of their habits and customs, their life-stories and their quaint slang, which all read like a true picture of the life of California.

War Literature.

How Belgium saved Europe. By DR. CHARLES SAROLEA. (Heinemann.)-The subject of Dr. Sarolea's new book is one which touches a responsive chord-sympathy for a small nation unjustly attacked, admiration for a gallant people, gratitude for those who sacrificed themselves and did not count the cost.

The Making of the War. By SIR GILBERT PARKER. (John Murray.)-It is the intention of the author to state in compact, but complete and easy form the many causes of the war. Besides the diplomatic interests involved, a special study is made of the development of Germany's war policy and aims during the last forty years, and particularly since the present Kaiser came to the throne. Nash's War Manual. Contains 'The Political Events which led up to the War'; Germany's Motives; 'The Duty of the Allies' 'A Survey of the Naval and Military Forces Engaged'; 'A Descriptive Account of the Countries and Peoples Involved,' &c.

Education.

The Schools of Medieval England. By ARTHUR F. LEACH. (Methuen.) Ă detailed history of English schools down to the Reformation. It traces their descent from the schools of Greece and Rome, and supports the thesis that the origin of most of our existing endowed schools, instead of being due to Edward VI. or Queen Elizabeth, is derived from Saxon, Norman, Plantagenet, or early Tudor times, as secular, not monastic institutions ; and it exhibits their growth in numbers and importance, with Winchester and Eton as half-way houses.

Pbilology.

The Place-Names of England and Wales. By the REV. JAMES B. JOHNSTON. (John Murray.) This book is the result of many years of independent research, in addition to a careful study of what has been already recorded on the subject. It endeavours to throw light on nearly every place-name of interest and of more than local importance, while the full Introduction makes some attempt at surveying the whole ground. For the names of Wales and Cornwall there is as yet no authoritative guide: at least a beginning is made with these, as well as an effort to exhibit the true extent of the Keltic element in England. The author has been for over thirty years on the staff of the Oxford New English Dictionary,' and he hopes that his book will supply a want long felt by the everincreasing band of place-name students, and make the way a good deal easier for those who come after.

A Short History of the English Language. By HENRY CECIL WYLD. (John Murray.)

This work, intended for those who wish to make a serious scientific study of the subject upon the lines of modern philological method, is written by a

successful popularizer of learning. The book contains lists of Old and Middle English texts representing the principal early dialects; there are also short chapters upon the elements of phonetics, and upon the general principles of the life of language. A fairly detailed account is given of the phonology of the dialects in Old and Middle English. The difficult questions connected with the history of English pronunciation; the development of sounds from the fifteenth century to the present time; the influence of the provincial dialects upon standard English; and the varying habits of the early modern writers (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries) are described and illustrated. A special chapter deals with the origin and history of literary English. On all these points the book aims at embodying the results of the most recent investigation.

Fiction.

The Witch. By MARY JOHNSTON. (Constable.)-A romance of the seventeenth century, the scene of which is laid partly in England and partly in the Bermudas. A Drop in Infinity. By GERALD GROGAN. (Lane.) In this story the author gives expression to his ideas of what might happen to a civilized people reduced to primitive conditions.

Fifty-One Tales. By LORD DUNSANY. (Elkin Mathews.)-Lord Dunsany has a special reputation as a writer of weird phantasmagoria. This volume is uniform with his Gods of Pegana,' of which a second edition has just appeared.

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General.

Arcana of Freemasonry. By DR. ALBERT CHURCHYARD. (Allen & Unwin.) -The author has been led to the conclusion that the source of the mysteries is Egypt, and has traced back to early times the ritual now in use by modern Masons.

Science, Sentiments, and Senses. By KENNETH WEEKS. (Allen & Unwin.)-A new volume of essays of scientific and social Driftwood,' studies, by the author of Mr. Ken'Five Unpractical Plays,' &c. neth Weeks, who has long resided in Paris, is now fighting for the country of his adoption in the French Foreign Legion.

Lavengro : the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest. By GEORGE BORROW. With 12 illustrations in colour by EDMUND J. SULLIVAN. (Foulis.)-This edition should be welcomed by the open-air lovers who have succumbed to the peculiar, wayward charm of the scholar-gipsy. Mr. Sullivan is well known for his skill in illustration.

The Lighter Side of School Life. By IAN HAY. With 12 illustrations in colour by LEWIS BAUMER of Punch. (Foulis.)In this amusing book Mr. Hay lays special

emphasis on what may be called the romance of school life as distinguished from the reality, and extracts humour from the contrast.

Memories. By JOHN GALSWORTHY. (Heinemann.)- Miss Maud Earl, the animal painter, has illustrated Mr. Galsworthy's pathetic little story 'Memories,' which tells of a dog friend of his. The story was published originally in Mr. Galsworthy's volume The Inn of Tranquillity.'

Poets and Puritans. By T. R. GLOVER. (Methuen.)—These essays deal with some nine English writers: men as far apart in outlook and temperament as Bunyan and Boswell; poets and Puritans; and men who were neither. In each case the endeavour is to realize a personality— to see a man in an environment, face to face with problems in art or religion, or both.

The Unknown Guest. By MAURICE MAETERLINCK. Translated by ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS. (Methuen.)—This new volume of essays treats of various occult matters of general interest, such as ghosts, haunted houses, our knowledge of the future, premonitions and precognitions, "psychometry," and kindred subjects, and includes a characteristic study of the famous Elberfeld horses, which the author travelled specially to Germany to see. The Influence of King Edward, and Essays on Other Subjects. By the VISCOUNT ESHER. (John Murray.)-The essays deal with The Character of King Edward VII.'; "The House of Lords'; 'Reflections suggested by Lord Morley's Political Notes'; 'The Voluntary Principle'; The Committee of Imperial Defence: its Functions and Potentialities 'The Naval and Military Situation'; Modern War and Peace'; 'La Guerre et la Paix quelques facteurs nouveaux de la Politique Internationale.'

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Alpha and Omega. By JANE HARRISON. (Sidgwick & Jackson.)—A collection of Miss Harrison's essays and studies. The Vanished Country Folk, and Other Studies in Arcady. By R. L. GALES. (Simpkin & Marshall.)-Mr. Gales from a quiet country parsonage surveys the present-day conditions of the country-side with humour and discrimination.

In Dickens's London. By F. HOPKINSON SMITH. (Smith & Elder.)-The volume is illustrated with charcoal drawings by the author, showing London scenes frequented by Dickens, and scenes used by him in his novels.

chapters, however, treat of photometry in the ultra-violet and of the absorption of solids and gases in this well-known region. The excuse for a book of such limited scope rests on the great importance which photo-electric, photo-chemical, and photo-abiotic processes have recently assumed.

Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles. By W. J. BEAN. With over 250 line drawings and 64 half-tone illustrations. 2 vols. (John Murray.)-No book has appeared in the English language dealing comprehensively with both shrubs and trees as they are represented to-day in the Yet since gardens of the British Isles. Loudon's great work was published in 1838 the number of species introduced to cultivation has probably been doubled. In the present work about 2,800 species (besides numerous varieties) are described, including nearly 400 of the Chinese trees and shrubs introduced within the last fifteen years. The descriptions are concise and drawn up in plain English, technical terms being avoided wherever possible. After the description of each species a paragraph is given to its native country, history, distinctive peculiarities, and other interesting particulars.

Fine Arts.

The Liverpool Potteries, an Account of their Productions in China, Earthenware, and Delft represented in the Liverpool Public Museums and Other Collections. With an Account of the Process of Transfer Printing upon Earthenware discovered by Sadler and Green. By PETER ENTWISTLE. With an Introduction by WILLIAM BURTON. (Chapman & Hall.) Mr. Entwistle, the Deputy-Curator of the Liverpool Free Public Museums, has from time to time placed many writers under obligations, and now a wider circle, including the enthusiastic collector, will be able to appreciate his efforts in setting forth the characteristics of the productions of the Liverpool potters and engravers of bygone days.

Grey Old Gardens Series. (Foulis.) A series of illustrated books which are intended for all who have felt the romantic

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suggestiveness of an old garden. Corners of Grey Old Gardens. A selection of essays by writers ranging from John Gerard in the sixteenth century to Mr. Le Gallienne in the twentieth, with 8 illustrations in colour by MARGARET A. WATERFIELD.--A Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes. A selection of nearly 350 inscriptions from old sundials, with an introductory essay by MR. LAUNCELOT CROSS, 8 illustrations in colour by MR. ALFRED RAWLINGS, and 34 drawings by MR. WARRINGTON HOGG of the finest remaining examples of old sundials in this country.

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Little Flowers of St. Francis. Translated from the Italian by HENRY EDWARD, CARDINAL MANNING. With 8 illustrations in colour by F. CAYLEY ROBINSON, also illuminations and richly decorated boards. (Foulis.)- Manning's rendering of selections from St. Francis will be a literary to many present-day readers. Songs and Poems of Robert Burns. Complete Edition. With 46 illustrations in colour by the most eminent of Scottish artists. 2 vols. (Foulis.) A handsome presentation edition, with appreciation of the poet by Lord Rosebery, and containing pictures by many artists, reproduced in

colour, depicting scenes from Burns. The text is printed in black and blue on fine paper, with ample margins.

Art in Flanders. By MAX ROOSES, Director

of the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. (Heinemann.)-This volume gives a short account of the wonderful art of Belgium. It deals with painting, sculpture, miniatures, decoration, and especially with Flemish architecture, which has given us such gems as the town halls at Louvain and Bruges and Oudenarde; cathedrals like Yprès and Tournai, and houses like those that form the Place de la Ville at Brussels. Reproductions of important Flemish works of art are included.

NELL.

In the Land of Temples. By JOSEPH PENWith 40 illustrations from lithographs, and an Introduction by W. H. D. ROUSE. (Heinemann.)-Mr. Pennell presents the Acropolis and the temples of Girgenti without help from foot-rule or dictionary. He gives us the Greek temples as they appear to-day-in their landscape with a setting of boulders and clouds and olives, and the distant mountains and sea.

The Catalogue of the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook. Edited by HERBERT COOK. In 3 vols. Vol. II. The Dutch and Flemish Schools. (Heinemann.)-Up to the present no authoritative catalogue has been published of the collection of pictures formed by the late Sir Francis Cook, though the pictures are frequently described in other publications. The gallery contains many masterpieces of all schools. The first of the three volumes, compiled by Dr. Tancred Borenius, dealt with the Italian pictures. The second, now nearly ready, deals with the Dutch School, and the collection will be found to be as rich in masterpieces by Rembrandt, Franz Hals, &c., as it is in Italian masters.

Adventures with a Sketch-Book. By DONALD MAXWELL. Illustrated by the Author, (Lane.)-Mr. Maxwell's explorations and romantic expeditions have led him to numerous unexpected places all Europe. The illustrations are in the text and printed on rough surface paper, so that they form an integral part of the book.

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The Practical Book of Period Furniture, treating of English Period and American Colonial and Post-Colonial Furniture, together with that of the Principal French Periods. By HAROLD DONALDSON EBERLEIN and ABBOT MCCLURE. With 200 illustrations in colour, double tone, and line. (Lippincott.)-A practical book for those who wish to know and buy "period furniture. An illustrated chronological key is provided for the identification of the period to which any piece of furniture belongs. In the text the details of shape, material, ornament, &c., are explained in a manner suited for ready reference. The volume is uniform in size with The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs.'

The Lady of the Lake. By SIR WALTER SCOTT. Illustrated in colour by HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY. (Grant Richards.) -A gift-book which should be popular. Italian Gardens of the Renaissance, and Other Studies. By JULIA CARTWRIGHT. (Smith & Elder.)-To-day most of the gardens described in this volume have unfortunately perished, and live only in the writings of Renaissance humanists, the prose of Boccaccio and Bembo, and the verse of Poliziano and Ariosto.

BOOKS PUBLISHED THIS WEEK.

THEOLOGY. Baverstock (A. H.), THE PRIEST AS CONFESSOR, 2/6 net. Cope & Fenwick

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The writer's hope is that this book will 'put priests in touch with traditional Catholic procedure both in handling the subject of confession and in hearing confessions.' Beeching (H. C.), ARMAGEDDON, 1d. net.

S.P.C.K. A sermon upon the war, preached in Norwich Cathedral. Dearmer (Mabel), A CHILD'S LIFE OF CHRIST, 2/6 net. Methuen

Second and cheaper edition. Green (Right Rev. Arthur Vincont), AUSTRALIAN SERMONS, preached to Country Congregations, 3/6 net. Macmillan

These sermons, by the Bishop of Ballarat, are published in the hope that they may be of practical use to honorary lay-readers in Australia.

Holmes (Ven. E. E.), THE COLOURS OF THE KING : RED, WHITE, AND BLUE, 1/net. Longmans

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Four addresses given in St. Paul's Cathedral on the Sunday afternoons at the beginning of the war with Germany.' Horology (An); OR, PRAYERS FOR EVERY HOUR FOR THE WEARY, AND THE WAKEFUL, AND THE MOURNERS, 2d. S.P.C.K.

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