17 JANUARY 1931, page 27

Mr. Everard Wyrall Adds One More To His Already Long

tale Of regimental histories in the shape of The 17th (S) Battalion Royal Fusiliers, 1914-19 (Methuen, 5s.). The 17th Fusiliers was an oddly- compounded battalion, made up of......

Fiction

Bridal Pond. By Zona Gale. (Knopf. 7s. 6d.) A Farewell to India. By Edward Thompson. (Benn. 7s. 64.) MISS GALE, in her collection of short stories, knows to a . nicety how much......

The Late Mr. David Croal Thomson Was Known To A

wide circle of friends here and abroad as a true lover of art, and it is pleasant to find in Barbizon House, 1930, published by his son and successor, Mr. Lockett Thomson, a......

General Knowledge Questions

Oca weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Rev. F. G. L. Lucas, Morestead Grange, Winchester, for the following :-......

• "started At 8.45 After A Very Bad Chola Hazri

of rotten egg and our own cocoa" is a rather typical extract from Lt.-Col. Sir Reginald Rankin's A Tour through the Himalayas (Lane, 12s. (id.), which is a record of Sport and......

Some Books Of The Week

OF the two. guide books of Czechoslovakia just issued, that by Mr. Clive Holland; Czechoslovakia (Herbert - Jenkins, 5s.), is probably the more coMPlete and careful, and • also......