12 OCTOBER 1929, page 22

* * * * It Would Be A Churlish Soul

that did not enjoy some part at least of the Duchess of Sermoneta's bright, fresh memories. Born a Colonna—a family whose history is the history of Middle Age and Renaissance......

Sixty-nine Miles From The Nore To Just Below Teddington...

does not mean Tide-end Town) stretches the Port of London. Its varied sights by water and by land have given rise to the writing of Mr. A. G. Linney's The Peepshow of the Port......

* * * * Alas, Belinda, Flies Your Fickle Swain

'With Araminta in the Kingston train ! Kingston, not Maidenhead, James Laver sings, Where naughty innocents find amorous wings. John, Alfred, Alastair and Ferdinand Each in......

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Cherry Kcarton requires no- introduction. He is known .as a humane man, a naturalist - and an intimate of wild animals, also as their photographer-in-chief. The combination is......

Some Books Of The Week

Oxi: of the most extraordinary puzzles of recent European history is discussed in the The Dunkelgraf Mystery, by Herr Maeckel in collaboration with Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond......

The Latest And Most Complete Collection Of The Poems . Of

Sir Walter Raleigh (Constable, 16s.) is remarkable not only for the value of the work itself, but also for the prefatory essay by the editor, Miss A. M. C. Latham, a scholar......

A Great Deal Depends On How Much Joking Make-believe A

reader can stand. Perhaps the length and the quality of, say, one of Hans Andersen's fairy-tales may be enough for many ; but again there may be—must be--.. 7 -some who, having......

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