=NATIONAL EDUCATION.= By BARON VON TAUBE, author of "Manual Training," "In Defence of America," "Only a Dog's Life," etc. Crown 8vo, Cloth. 3s. 6d. net. Two basic and dominating conceptions underlie the theory of education put forward in this treatise. The first is the necessity for a national education which will evoke, foster, develop and not level down and destroy all the peculiar and unique characteristics which go to make a nation a nation, and endow it with an individuality distinct from that of all other nations. The second is the necessity for the encouragement of originality and the full development of individual capacity, as contrasted with the mass-drill measures which are all too prevalent nowadays. The author's theories are based on ascertained sociological and psychological data and on numerous practical experiments in pedagogy which have been successfully carried out by him. Discontent with the modern stereotyped system of cram education is increasing daily, and this book should prove a valuable contribution to the literature on this vitally important subject. BELLES LETTRES =EPISODES OF VATHEK.= By WILLIAM BECKFORD. Translated by Sir Frank T. Marzials, with an Introduction by Lewis Melville. Medium 8vo, cloth. 21s. net. These Episodes or Eastern Tales, related in the Halls of Eblis, were discovered recently by Mr. Lewis Melville in the archives of Hamilton Palace. They were conceived by Beckford as three episodes complete within themselves, which he proposed to interpolate, in the manner of the "Arabian Nights," into his famous Oriental story of "Vathek." The original in French is given after the English translation, and the reader will find this volume extremely interesting both as treasure trove and literature. =SONNETS AND BALLATE OF GUIDO CAVALCANTI.= Translated by EZRA POUND. Crown 8vo, cloth. 3s. 6d. net. We have had many translations of the Divina Commedia, a few of the Vita Nuova. Rosetti has translated a miscellany of "Early Italian Poets," but in these "Sonnets and Ballate" of Guido Cavalcanti we have a new thing, the endeavour to present a 13th century Tuscan poet, other than Dante, as an individual. More than one Italian critic of authority has considered Cavalcanti second to Dante alone in their literature. Dante places him first among his forerunners.