Miss Underhill, As Our Readers Know, Rarely Writes Even A
short article without some flash of wit, some apt analogy, some charming allusion to illuminate her scholarship. In her Mysticism, of which a twelfth edition has just been......
A Book Such As Tyrol Under The Ave Of Fascism,
by Dr. Eduard Reut-Nicolussi (Allen and Unwin, 12s. lid.) makes one reflect sadly on the sluggishness of the international public conscience where political matters are at......
It Is Not Given To Many Of Us To Be
able to compare Hammer- fest with Punta Arenas, to estimate the relative merits of a Lapp but and a Mongolian yurl, or the conveniences of a Yellowstone tourist-lodge as......
Some Books Of The Week
DURING the past month the books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been :— NON-FICTION : As We Were, A Victorian Peepshow, by E. F. Benson ; An Ambassador of Peace, Lord......
Mr. Lewis May's Life Of George Eliot (cassell, Ifs.)...
two points of view, the Victorian and the Georgian. Ile admires her genius almost as heartily as her contemporary critics ; at the same time he considers that her desire to dis-......
One Of The Surprises Of The War Was The Bombardment
of Paris in the spring and summer of 1918 from a distance of over seventy miles. Colonel H. W. Miller, of the United States Ordnance Corps, in The Paris Gun (Horny, 10s. 6d.),......
A Fascinating, If Imaginative, Story Of The Birth Of A
people introduces us to the Waehagga, who form the subject of Miss Eva Stuart-Watt's Africa's Dome of Mystery (Marshall Morgan and Scott, 10s. 6d.). It is a difficult book to......
A New Competition
Yours cousin and his wife, who have lived all their lives in Australia, want to spend one month of next year in England. They ask your advice as to when they should come, where......
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