ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

The Man Who Made Gottlieb. By Anthony Bortram. Chapman and Hall. Dan Loveday, a musician who had dreamcl of being groat, ended by believing that he had built all his greatness and achievement into Karl Gottlieb, his pupil, who became a famous conductor; but '"our Karl Friedrich' was ungrateful and the world heedless. The story is truthful in its humour and pain. The Longman Romances. 3, The Mysterious Cavalier. By P. Feval and M. Lassez. 4, The Queen's Fillet. By P. A. Sheehan. Longmans Greea and Co. (3s Cd net each.) Mm. Feval and Lassez tarn with great success to the period between 4 4 The Three Musketeers" and 41 Twenty Years After/' introducing D'Artagnan, Mazii'ixi, Richelieu, Madame de Chevreuse, and other old friends. Father Sheehan *s is a very good story of the French Revolution. Both these books belong to a reprint series at a low price. New Wars, New Weapons. By Lt.-Coin. the Hon. J. M. Kenworthy, R.N., M.P., The Library of New Ideas, No. 1: Elkin Mathews and Marrot. (3s 6d net.) Commander Kenworthy >s thesis is that Great Britain's expenditure of £112,000,000 a year on armaments is largely wasted on naval and military defences quite useless against air attack; and he urges that less should ba spent in all, but much more on the Air Force. The book begins very well a new series on modern problems. A Year in England for Foreign Students. By Wilfred Thorley. Allen and Unwin (2s 6d net.) A useful little book on England, its life and institutions, intended as an auxiliary in the direct method of learning the language.