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contributed at considerable cost the fine illus- trations for which we cannot be too grateful." Mr. Keyser sends to the i resent number ' Notes on Berkshire Churches,' with many beautiful illi strations. Mrs. Suckling writes on ' The Washington Arms and Pedigree.' She says that, from a long article recently published in America, it would appear that doubts have arisen as to the accuracy of the pedigree supplied to General Washington by the Heralds' College, these doubts being "based upon investigations (not yet completed) by the Rev. Dr. Solloway, Vicar of Selby, Lancashire (?), England ; that our father, George, did not, after all, derive from the Wash- ingtons of Sulgrave, but was probably a descend- ant of one of two brothers who went to Virginia from Lancashire."

For the last three years Mr. John Hautenville Cope has assisted Mr. Ditchfield in the editing, and the latter records how pleasant the association has been, and how considerably his labour has been lightened.

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THIS is a University number, and Mr. Hicks, who is the Law Librarian to Columbia University, writes on ' Library Problems resulting from Recent Developments in American Universities.' He points out some of the difficulties wl ich confront the library as a result of its intimate connexion with the University. It cannot choose its own lines of development ; " the initiative lies not with the University Library, but with the University as a whole, attempting to arrive one means towards their rccomplishment." "The change in the method of instruction from the use of few boo s to the use of many has caused a progressive demand for larger col- lections of boo s, and there is " a recognition of the power of the printed page for which librarians have always stood sponsor." The case method has come into extensive use in law schools; it has also been adapted to the study of medicine, and a work entitled ' Case Teaching .in Medicine ' has been prepared by Dr. Richard C. Cabot of the Harvard Medical School. In other subjects, however, the case method has not yet resulted in the preparation of case books which might be substituted for references to the original sources.
 * at certain ends, and using the library as

Of special interest is an account of the Widener "Memorial Library, of which an illustration is given. The building is now nearly completed, and it is expected that by the end of the summer it will be in working order. A descriptive account of it is supplied by the Librarian, Mr. Lane. Mr. F. Weitenkampf writes on the Doucet Library at Paris, which contains 100,000 volumes on the history of art.

THE July Fortnightly is a very readable number. Sir A- Quiller-Couch contributes the only article which is not concerned with war or problems arising from war. Charming, vivacious, and suggestive, his 'The Workmanship of " A Mid- summer Night's Dream " ' misleads a little by its title, for it expounds not near so much the workmanship as the invention of the play. Dr. Brandes's ' Napoleon,' of which we are given a first instalment, is a penetrative essay in a more than commonly baffling field. Mr. W. F. Bailey's

' Life in Eastern Galicia ' is one of the best things in the number though it too arouses some expecta- tions it does not fulfil, for it is chiefly concerned with Eastern Galicia and its inhabitants as presented, in their barbaric brilliance of colour, their beauty, and their squalor, to the traveller's eye. Mr. S. P. B. Mais writes of ' Public Schools in War Time ' a wordy article, rather lacking in grip, and leaving the reader uncertain as to what it was written to prove, though affording by the way encouraging insight into the changes brought by the war into public schools, and offering sound advice on the subject of exaggerated playing on the sensibilities of the young. A touching picture albeit it exhibits traces of mere journalism we would gladly have dispensed with is given by Mr. J. F. Macdonald in ' The Paris of To-day.' Mr. Herbert Bentwich has a subject of curious and historic as well as political interest in ' The Future of the Land of Promise,' where he discusses the effect which the Great War may be expected to produce on the Zionist movement.

THE editor of The Cornhill calls special attention to Mr. Boyd Cable's contribution to the July number, another sketch entitled 'Between the Lines,' illustrating what are those actions and experiences conveyed summarily to us in some such phrase as "a violent artillery bombardment has been in progress." We heartily sympathize with the desire that a realization of these should bite deep into the public mind not so much a realiza- tion of the physical suffering and the ghastly modes of'wounding and death, which brave men learn to accept without complaint, as some hint of what the bitterness must be to lie passive under bombardment, not for a tactical reason, but for sheer lack of means of reply. This, in his vigorous, restrained, and poignant sketch, Mr. Boyd Cable brings out well and may it have the number and the sort of readers the editor desires ! Mr. Henry James on ' Mr. and Mrs. Fields ' is delightful, and, after so much roaring of guns, refreshing in the way we all so well know as his own. Dr. Fitchett in a first paper on Welling- ton's conversations about his battles is pleasant, readable, and instructive up to the height of a very pretty occasion. Sir Henry Lucy in 'Peacetime after War' discusses a Morning Chronicle of the spring of 1802, illustrating the preoccupations of the country at the moment when peace began to dawn.

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