Some Books Of The Week
WHEN' the late Lord Curzon bought Tattershall Castle to save it from destruction, he had it thoroughly restored at his own expense and gave it to the National Trust. But that......
Miss Ruth De Rochemont, In Evolution Of Art (macmillan...
net), aims at supplying a general reading public, intelligent, eager, but much occupied in its own business of living, with a synthesis of the world's accomplishment in the arts......
Mr. Osbert Sitwell Contributes A Lively. And...
to Thomas Rowlandson in the " Famous Water-Colour Painters " series (Studio, Limited, 5s. net). Rowlandson's mother was French, and in these drawings, especially, Gallic......
We Thought That The Increasing Complexity Of Scientific...
made it inadvisable for any modern writer to take all science for his province. The contrary is proved, however, by Mr. W. C. D. Dampier-Whetham's amazingly omniscient History......
Mr. G. K. Chesterton's The Thing (sheed And Ward, 7s.
6d.) is a controversial book of essays belonging to Mr. Chesterton's particular brand of controversy. He makes, as always, a gallant attempt to prove what some people believe to......
One Of The Finest Things In The Best Short Stories
of 1929 : America (Cape, 7s. Rd.) is the biography of a champion racing caterpillar, Red Peril. He was the fastest caterpillar in seven counties, winning scores of races, and a......
Formerly The Essay Was The Recreation Of The Learned And
vfas not without its whimsies and oddities of style or thought. To-day the essayist serves a wider public and expresses not to much his own point of view as that of the ordinary......
Elizabethan England Hated Spain, And The Hatred Was Con-...
all through the reign of Elizabeth's successor. Thus if came about that in 1624 there was produced (to quote a con- temporary account) " a very scandalous Comedic acted pub-......
Owing To The Exceptional Pressure On Our Space This Week
we have had to hold over our usual Travel Section. Those of our readers who desire travel information are reminded that the " Spectator " endeavours to put them into touch with......
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