11 AUGUST 1939, page 30

A Child's Guide To Knowledge

THE idea behind The World of Man is both admirable and ambitious. Roughly, it is to do for the puzzled and curious fourteen-year-old, comprehensively and at an appropriate......

The Cold Lands

Stoughton. zos. 6d.) HERE are five books, three good and two bad, about the polar regions. Number one is a short monograph written to ex- plain the underlying principles that......