Mr. Richard Halliburton's Glorious Adventure (bles,...
a curious combination of what the author, as an American, would call mighty pretty fooling, of a deep and a genuine love for poetry, a fine feeling for human achieve- ment, and......
The Only Excuse For A Re-description Of A Well-trodden Path
is lively narrative and some freshness of view, but in Miss Chown's Wayfaring in Africa (Cranton, 10s. 6d., illustrated), which narrates a woinan's wanderings from the Cape to......
This Week's Books
THERE is really not much to say about Mr. Sedgwick's new life of Cortes the Conqueror (Lane, illustrated, 16s.), save to 'register the fact of its appearance and to remark that......
The Treasury Is The Most Potent And The Most Mysterious
of all the Departments. Even Cabinets are said to tremble before it. The late Lord Salisbury, when Prime Minister, likened the Treasury's power over other departments to that Of......
Ways To Be Happy And Successful, According To Mr. Herbert
Casson in Thirteen Tips on Luck (Efficiency Magazine, 5s.) are : (1) to study averages and percentages instead of following the crowd, (2) to find out things for oneself, (3) to......
Irish Lawyers Have A Traditional Gift Of Humour, And Sir
John Ross, the last Lord Chancellor of Ireland, well maintains the credit of his profession in his new volume of reminiscences called Pilgrim Scrip (Herbert Jenkins. 18s.). He......
Mr. Arthur Waugh Has Collected Eighteen Of The Best Short
stories contributed during the last year to English and American periodicals in Georgian Stories, 1927 (Chapman and Hall. 7s. 6d.). The writers selected include Stacy Aumonier;......
To Us In England The Roads Of Pennsylvania Can Certainly
not be described as well-trodden paths, but the meticulous- ness with which they are examined by Dr. John T. Faris in Old Trails and Roads in Penn's Land (Lippincott, 25s.,......
General Knowledge Questions
THE prize of one guinea for the best thirteen General Knowledge questions is awarded this week to Dr. Dewar for the paper which follows. Many of our readers have written asking......
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