Perhaps Signor Benedetto Croce Is At His Best When He

is most' discursive : certainly The Conduct of Life (Harrap) is every- where stimulating and refreshing. Another reason why these essays seem to have an especial grace and......

A Book Of The Moment

TABLE TALK OF G.B.S. [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] Table-Talk of G.B.S. Conversation on Things in General Between Bernard Shaw and his......

We Must Recommend To Our Readers A Treatise On Phidias

and The Parthenon Sculptures, by P. Johansen (Gyldendal : Constable). The subject is handled capably and there are many illustrations.......

Charles Stewart Parnell

Parnell. By St. John Ervine. (Berm. 12s. 6d.) THE series to which Mr. Ervine contributes his biography of Parnell is called Curiosities of Politics, and if Parnell was to be......

Dr. Gilbert C. Bourne Explodes A Number Of Heresies And

gives his own very sound and well-documented counsel in A Text-Book of Oarsmanship (Oxford University Press). The title is very modest for it is at once a history and an......

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PROFESSOR FERDINAND OSSENDOWSKI is inexhaustible inf his memories. In his new book Front President to Prison (Allen and Unwin) he records his adventures during the......

Seventh Competition

THE EDITOR OFFERS A PRIZE OF £5 FOR AN OUTLINE OF HISTORY IN NOT MORE THAN 100 WORDS OF PROSE. BREVITY is dangerous : it may be that the Spartans never understood one another.......