25 AUGUST 1928, page 22

Fiction

Art, Photography, and " Movies " 7s. 6d.) Spider Boy. By Carl Van Vechten. (Knopf. 7s. 6d.) OF these six novels, only the first two pretend to represent life as it is. Yet The......

Flying For Pleasure And Profit

MERE is matter for congratulation in this Report, particularly on the safety of Imperial Airways and on the preparation being made for the development of lighter-than-air craft.......

When Steam Was New Tins Magnificent Volume Is Ostensibly...

a catalogue to the Macpherson Collection of prints of " mail and passenger steamships of the nineteenth century." Many of the prints are themselves very beautifully reproduced......

General Knowledge Questions

Questions on Thomas Hardy OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss Constance Dart, The Orchard, Crediton, for the......