The Many New Members Will Doubtless Buy And Study With
care Mr. G. F. M. Campion's Introduction to the Procedure of the House of Commons (Philip Allan, 12s. 6d.), for Mr. Campion is Second Clerk Assistant of the House, and his chief......
Some Books Of The Week
WHEN, at Loc.-arm, the late Foreign Secretary bound this country to keep the peace in Western Europe, and refused to enter into any parallel undertaking in Eastern Europe, he......
Inasmuch As The Boswell Family Papers Are Now In A
private American library, it is not surprising that the first exhaustive account of Boswell's writings should have been prepared by an American scholar. Mr. F. A. Pottle, of......
Spanish Gardens (batsford, 25s.) Is One Of A Series On
the arts and crafts of Spain, and speaks well for the series. After a hot day in London one can almost fancy, from Miss Villiers- Stuart's book, that one has just wandered in......
In A Tract Against " Roundabout " Dancing, The Rector
of Abbenhall wrote in 1870: " I have had a glimpse and a glance, at this objectionable mode of dancing. I saw three couples go round and round, like a flash of lightning ; and......
" They Ate No Meat, Nor Drank Anything But Water,
and the common people go without shoes or stockings all the year round. I pitied their poverty, but observed the people were fresh and lusty and did not seem to be under any......
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If the literary lecture habit were not developing in response to a quite definite public demand, it might seem to some of us that the practice of writing books about books was......
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