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NOTES AND QUERIES: JWebtum of 3ntercommuntcation FOB LITERARY MEN, GENERAL READERS, ETC. "When found, make a note of." CAPTAIN CUTTLE. No. 216. PS"-] JUNE 3, 1922. Registered as a Newspaper. xforb poofcs History of the War in the Air By Sir WALTER RALEIGH. Vol. I. : History of Flying ; the Organization of the British Air Forces ; their achievement in the early months of the War. [Immediately. The Theory of Relativity and its Influence on Scientific Thought. By ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON. The Romanes Lecture delivered in the Shel- donian Theatre, 24 May, 1922. Medium 8vo. 2s. net. Opus EpistolarunvDes. Erasmi Roterodami denuo recogmtum et auctum. Per P. S. ALLEN et H. M. ALLEN. Vol. IV. 1519-1521. With 3 Plates. 8vo. 28s. net. Volumes I.-III. covered the years 1484-1519. The Bantu and Semi-Bantu Languages A Comparative Study. By Sir HARRY H. JOHNSTON. Vol. II. With 2 Maps. Crown 4to. 63s. net. Vol. I., published in 1919, contained a series of vocabularies of the known Bantu and Semi- Bantu languages. The present volume consists of a comparative examination of these languages, with the conclusions thereby reached. Etruscan Tomb Paintings Their Subjects and Significance. By FREDERIK POULSEN. Translated by INGE- BORG ANDERSEN. With 47 Illustrations in half-tone. Crown 4to. 15s. net. Based upon investigations made in the Etruscan Tombs at Corneto and Chlusi, and on comparison of the original wall-paintings with the facsimiles and drawings made from them and preserved in the Helbig Museum in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. The Population Problem A Study of Human Evolution. By A. M. CARR-SAUNDERS. 8vo. 21s. net. Many different questions connected with population are frequently discussed at the present day. This book is designed not so much as a contribution to the study of any one of these questions in particular as an attempt to trace back to their origin the main problems which now attract attention and to indicate their relation one to the other to view the whole problem in fact from an historical and evolutionary standpoint. The Golden Fleece An Introduction to the Industrial History of England. By G. W. MORRIS and L. S. WOOD. With 70 Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. An historical study, and account of the woollen industry, written with reference to the industrial history of England. " To study the growth of a trade is to see the development of our national life from a new and more intimate point of view." The Charles Men By VERNER von HEIDENSTAM. Translated from the Swedish by CHARLES WHAR- TON STORK, with an Introduction by FREDRIK BOOK. (Scandinavian Classics, Vol. XV.) Crown 8vo. In 2 volumes.* 22s. net. " A work devoted to the king who lived his whole life in the field and died hi a trench, and who even in the days of Voltaire stood as the genius of war. the symbol of its desolating and misfortune-bringing might." = CotSWold Characters : Thesiger Browne, the Mason ; Simon Bodd, the Fisherman ; Bufus Clay, the Foreigner ; Pony, the Footballer ; Joe Pentifer and Son. By JOHN DRINKWATER. With five engravings on wood by PAUL NASH. Crown 8vo. 6s. 8d. net. [For Yale University Press. ^ Five brief sketches showing in prose a few of the characteristics of the Cots wold eoman. I Humphrey Milford OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS London, E.C.4