Mr. Leonard Woolley, Who Is Again Excavating At Ur, Has
written an uncommonly attractive and informing account of his epoch-making discoveries during the last seven years in (Jr of the Chaldees (Benn, 7s. 6d.). He describes in detail......
The Correspondent Who Described Last Week A Visit To The
Barcelona Exhibition, and the impressive display made by Germany, might have added that the British decision against participating in that international exhibition in any worthy......
That Handsome But Cruel Welshman, Baron Jeffreys Of Wem,...
High Chancellor of England, was " a great lawyer, a great judge and a great man ; the trusted confidant of one King and the neglected adviser of another." Thus Mr. J. G.......
It Is Pleasant To Record The Appearance Of The Third
and fourth volumes of Mr. John S. C. Bridge's masterly History of France from the Death of Louis XI (Clarendon Press, 16s. each). These volumes cover the reign of Louis XII......
The Collection Of Silver Shown At Seaford House Last May
has a worthy record in Queen Charlotte's Loan Exhibition of Old Silver (Saint Catherine Press, £2 2s. 6d.). Arranged to benefit especially Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital,......
It Is Strange That An Unpublished Book By Southey, Who
died in 1848, should have been lying for many years in the library of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Now that it has been edited, for the Institution, by Professor Herford,......
Dr. Sophia Weitzman Has Made An Important Contribution To...
history of British India in her Warren Hastings and Philip Francis (Manchester University Press, 25s.). She is not worldly-wise, perhaps, in admitting that her book has grown......
More Books Of The Week
(Continued from page 129.) Professor Radhakrishnan's Indian Philosophy, first pub- lished in 1922, has just been reissued by Messrs. Allen and Unwin (21s.). There is a valuable......
A Library List
Hurrortv AND BIOGRAPHY :—The Romance of a Colonial Parliament. By Ralph Kilpin. (Longmans. 8s. fid.) —Scottish Family History. By Margaret Stuart and J. B. Paul. (Oliver and......
For The Early History Of The English Church Dr. Charles
Cotton's scholarly monograph on The Saxon Cathedral at Canterbury and the Saxon Saints Buried Therein (Manchester University Press, 10s. 6d.) is authoritative. The Church,......
Dr. Menzies Campbell Has Written A Very Useful Little Volume
in Those Teeth of Yours (Heineman, 35. 6d.) which should be of especial value to all those charged with the care or education of the young. It cannot be too often repeated that......
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