The Annual Register. (longmans. 3os.)
THE Annual Register is, despite its honourable antiquity, less generally known than it should be to persons who for one reason or another need to have at hand a succinct and......
I Wore My Linen Trousers. By Basil Collier. (dent. I5s.)
FOR your literary exhibitionist, the light-weight travel-book offers perhaps the greatest scope. Arch self-revelation is so easily larded with a knowing slice of guide-book......
What Of The Night ? By Watchman. (hamish Hamilton. 8s.
6d.) " WATCHMAN," who would appear to spend much of his time in the Press Gallery of the House of Commons, speculates in this rambling book on the future of the political......
Shorter Notices
Tins is an agreeable assembly of articles and causeries by the Metropolitan Magistrate for West London. Dealing mostly with legal and social questions, they are the product of a......
Mediterranean Problems. By Gordon East. (nelson. 2s. -6d.)
THE fact that this small volume includes in its 220 pages no fewer than 54 maps gives some indication of its character, and, it may be added, of its value. Mr. East is a Reader......
Competitors Were Invited To Recommend Some Favourite Book...
though neither unduly difficult to obtain, nor essentially appealing to an eclectic taste, is unknown to the average reader." Some of them apparently have a low opinion of the......
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