We Have Received A New Edition In The Chandos Classics
of Sale's Koran (Warne, 2s. 6d.), which is convenient in size and cheap in price. The print is good and there is a short, interesting introduction by Sir Edward Denison Ross.......
We Confess To A Weakness For Reading Anti-british Books, For
they are often stimulating. The Revolt of Asia, by " Upton Close" (Putnam, 10s. 6d.), is one of this class, for it leaves us feeling that if that is all that is bad about the......
Twilight Sleep, By Miss Edith Wharton, Reviewed In Our Last
issue, is published at 7s. 6d. by Messrs. Appleton's.......
The B.b.c. Send Us From Savoy Hill, W.c. 2, Their
pro- gramme of their Talks and Lectures up to the end of July (issued gratis), which should be of interest to a great number of people. We—the public—must learn to co-operate......
Of All The Charming Conceits To Be Found In Mr.
Philip Guedalla's republished essays, Men of Letters (Hodder and Stoughton, 2s. 6d.), this mocking description of the literary review struck home—" where the unread exchange......
Mr. Masefield Writes The Introduction To The Poems Of Duncan
Campbell Scott (Dent, 12s. 6d.), calling attention to the author's interesting and varied portraits of Canadian Indians and to the romantic fantasy of " The Piper of Arll,"......
This Week's Books
A remenLET on the vitamin values of wild vegetables did not promise the entertainment which it in fact afforded to this ieviewer. Nettles, of course, can be made into an......
Somerset Men Are Spread Over All The Earth And Their
Light Infantry has been famous on a. hundred fields. Would that there were space to tell in these columns of the great deeds done by this famous regiment, but heroism and......
The League Of Nations Union Have Prepared A Bibliography On
League publications which should be most useful to students of international affairs. The price is twopence, and it is obtainable from 15 Grosvenor Crescent, S.W. 1.......
A Book About High Politics Sounds Dull, And Mr. William
Sanderson does not allay our fears of boredom in Statecraft (Methuen. 7s. 6d.). We disagree with much that he writes-L- he thinks The Confessions of a Capitalist vulgar, whereas......
Mr. Morton's Dedication, In In Search Of England...
gd.) , " Do you remember, lady, how the dawn Came slow above the Isle of Athelney?" Minds us somehow of those greater lines by Mr. Chesterton : " Do you remember how we went,......
Competitions
Tan Editor offers a prize of £5 for the best philosophy of life which readers can write on the back of a postcard. We shall attempt no definitions nor shall we ask our readers......
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