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(Continued from page 367.) We have always tried to oppose Socialism vigorously. So, too, has Professor Hearnshaw in his Survey of Socialism (Macmillan, 15s.), but his vigour is......
We Are Strongly Tempted To Quote From Canon Hannay's Do
You Know Your History (Gollancz, 3s. 6d.), which forms a delightful companion to Do You Know Your Bible, but we refrain, for we publish General Knowledge Questions of our own.......
The Life Of Moses (gollancz, 12s. 6d.) Is A Great
subject, and Monsieur Edmond Fleg, a distinguished French writer, himself a Jew, might, one would have thought, have been an excellent biographer. But we are disappointed. M.......
No Instrument Of Music Can Have Had More Attention From
English poets and fanciful writers within the last few hundred years than the bell, and almost certainly there is none of which English people in general (the poets included)......
If, As Captain Mccullagh Thinks, An American Protectorate...
is "fairly certain," unless the other great republics of South America intervene, then automatically the troubles and horrors described in Red Mexico (Brentano, 15s.) will come......
Parents Must Often Wish That The Work Of Modern Psycho-
logists was made open for them in a common-sense and compre- hensible manner. In Dr. Estelle Cole's Three Minute Talks About Children (Daniel Company, 8s. (id.), a qualified and......
The Reader Will Find Himself Grateful For Savage's...
of verse ending "No tenth transmitter of a foolish face," by the time he has swallowed the wearyfeast of hashed- up history, recurring clichés and peptonized matter that Dr.......
Mr. Joad's Diogenes, Or The Future Of Leisure (kegan Paul,
2s. 6d.) is a dreary little book in three sections ; the art of living, the misuses of leisure, and the future of leisure. We hope for some oasis of optimism, some cooling......
We Mentioned Mr. Lynd's An Of Letters, Mr. Kearton's Wild
Nature's Ways and Mr. Galsworthy's Six Short Plays in these notes last week, all in "The New Reader's Library." This series is published by Messrs. Duckworth at 8s. 6d. each,......
General Knowledge Questions
OtTR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. Douglas, Tower House, Crawley Down, Sussex, for the following :— Questions......
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