14 JULY 1923, page 21

The Institute Of Historical Research Of The University Of...

has just issued the first number of its Bulletin, containing an admirable report on the transcription and editing of historical texts, notes on recent additions to tho Documents......

Children Of Men. By Eden Phillpotts. (heinemann. 7s. 6d.)...

Children of Men Mr. Eden Phillpotts completes his Dartmoor cycle. He explains in a foreword that his aim in writing it is to vindicate his belief in the upward trend of moral......

Scribner's.

Dr. G. E. Hale's article on "Recent Discoveries in Egypt" gives an authoritative account of the work done by the New York Metropolitan Museum's expedition, and is well......

The Army Quarterly.

This admirable review, which has official approval but is independent in tone, contains several notable articles, including a very unorthodox pronouncement on "Study and......

Ditte : Towards The Stars. By Martin Andersen Nexii....

is. fid.) Ditte : Towards the Stars. By Martin Andersen Nexii. (Heinemann. is. fid.) This is the third and last phase of the life of Ditte, the Bona Dea, almost, of Poverty :......

The Burlington Magazine.

The important exhibitions of nineteenth-century French art at Messrs. Knoedler's Gallery, and of Carved Ivories at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, receive interesting notice. A......

The Slavonic Review.

The School of Slavonic Studies at King's College has done well to produce and maintain this very able quarterly, which is revealing the Slav peoples as they really arc to......

Periodicals.

The Hibbert Journal. This quarterly has completed its twenty-first year, with a circulation that has been "large from the first" and is "now solidly established." The editor,......

The World's Work.

We would draw special attention to Mr. J. W. Robertson Scott's excellent paper on "Country People's Clubs," con- taining information which correspondents of the Spectator are......

The London Mercury.

Dr. Bridges's Sonnet to Francis Jammes is light-hearted and deft-handed ; but the most interesting verses in the July number are in Mr. Frank Kendon's poem to a child. Perhaps......

The Arts.

English Interiors in Smaller Houses, 1660-1830. By M. Jourdain. (Botsford. 24s. Gd.) Mr. Jourdain has collected a number of excellent photo- graphs and drawings, showing......