Some Books Of The Week

THE two final volumes of The Lives of the Noble. Grecians and Romanis, by Plutarke, once known as North's Plutarch, but now as the Nonesuch Plutarch (five vols., limited......

There Have Been, At One Time Or Another, Many Royal

Homes near London, and the volume in which Major Benton Fletcher has described and pictured them (Lane, 21s.) is inter- esting and attractive. Hampton Court and Kew, Greenwich......

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Behind the Scenes its Many Wars is aptly named, for Lieut.- General Sir George Machfunn, a gallant and distinguished soldier who earned his first laurels as .a subaltern. in......

A New Competition

Pus Eorron offers a prize of five guineas for the best New Year resolutions for eight of the following members of the public. No resolution should be more than 20 words in......

Lord D'abernon's Will Be One Of The Most Honoured Names

when the turbid stream of the post-War period has joined the calm waters of history. There is no Englishman living whose views on finance and on international economic......

Those Who Are Interested In A State Of Society Which

has passed away and whose palate does not revolt from the flavour of small beer may find it worth while to pick up Edwardian Hey-days, a little about a lot of things, by George.......

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It Is Difficult To Commend The Pleasures Of Poetry, By

Edith Sitwell (Duckworth, Os.), as it deserves withoutseeming extrava- gant. Miss Sitwell has selected from Milton and the Augustan Age a number of poems, and has written as......