There Is No Excuse For Republishing Eve's Legend, Written In
1824 by Lord Holland (Etchells and Macdonald, £8 3s.) ; and this is perhaps why the publishers chose to issue it in so exclusive an edition. It is a pure jeu d'esprit ; the......
Two Men Who Have Seen Much Of The World Collaborate
in an engaging volume entitled Travels -in Hope, after a phrase of R. L. Stevenson's (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s. 6d.). Mr. James Milne has written the short and genial essays......
Sir William Bragg's Introduction To Crystal Analysis...
too technical a book to be reviewed in these columns ; but we direct attention to it as the work of one of the greatest living scientists.......
The Splendid- Journey. By Honore Willsie Morrow....
of a pioneer boy has an old- fashioned flavour and a sturdiness about it that is •reminisce* of books like The Swiss Family Robinson, Illasterman Ready, and other favourites of......
More Books Of. The Week
(Ccnt.nucd from page 58.) .A History of Garden Art in two volumes, an English trans- lation of Marie Luise Gothein's work, which was first published in Germany in 1918, has now......
All Who Care For Art Have A Kindly Feeling For
Messrs. Christie, whose famous auction rooms in King Street, St. James's, are, during the season, continually filled with fine things which one may examine at one's leisure. The......
King Of Shadows. By Margaret Yeo. (sliced And Ward. 7s
6d.)-Students of history will disagree as to the validity of Miss Yeo's claim that her hero, James the Pretender- caricatured, according to her, by Thackeray in Henry Esmond......
Mr. Geoffrey Grant's Book, Told In Serbia (roberts, 38.6d.)
contains translations of fifteen peasant tales : these are, rather in the manner of Aesop's fables, though they lack their pointed brevity. Many of the stories are amusing,......
" And Which Of Them Stars Is Inhabited, George ?
" said his companion, looking up at the thousand stars of heaven, " Er-that little one on the left," replied George. It is this sort of humour which makes E. & 0. E. (Methuen,......
Even Those Who Have Lived Hi Oxford For The Three
years necessary to qualify for a degree-even those who come from .across the Atlantic specially to see Oxford-know probably little or nothing of West Oxford. Most people would......
Lord Cowley- Was Ambassador In Paris During Some Of The
most interesting years' of last • century, and was able to' see the reaction of France to such momentous events as the Crimean War, and later the Seven Weeks War. His son,......
During The Year 1927, Mr. J. P. Thomas Tells Us
in Handling London's Underground Traffic (London's Underground, 85 Broadway, Westminster, 7s. 6d.) 79,005,322 car-miles were operated, and 845,403,210 passengers were carried by......
A Library List
REFERENCE Booxs :-Catalogue of the British Industries Fair; 1929. Special Overseas Edition. (H.M. Stationery Office. ls.) The Catholic Directory 1929. (Burns, Oates and......
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