Some Books Of The Week
The Political Quarterly for January to March begins with " A Reform Bill for 1932," by Lady Passfield (Mrs. Sidney Webb), whose suggestions for constitutional reform contrast......
The Marrendon Mystery, By J. S. Fletcher. (the Crime Club,
7s. 6d.), consists of sixteen short stories of the kind which we classify as detective fiction. They are ingenious and well written, and in other ways rather better than the......
The Rising Generation, As Their Elders Often Forget, Know...
about the late War. To them, therefore, we would com- mend Sir William Beach Thomas's Events of the Great War in Megsrs. Routledge's sixpenny series of Introductions." In eighty......
The Emiment Swedish Theologian Dr. Yngve Brilioth Is...
known in this country by his book on The Anglican Revival ; and accounts of his great work on the Eucharist—first published in 1926—have familiarized English students of......
Fiction
Martyrs IN the names of duty and devotion the very elect are deceived, and Rachel Moon, of Miss Rea's new novel, was not of the very elect. She was an obsessed and self-made......
General Knowledge Questions
OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to W. F. Broadbent, Halefield, Wendover, Bucks. Questions on Persian Art I. What......