Colonel Wedgwood Has Done A Most Useful Piece Of Work
in compiling the Parliamentary history of the county and boroughs of Staffordshire from 1608 to 1832, with compact biographies of all the members. The local and personal details......
Broken Bridges.*
" Tam wordy novels of Dickens and his contemporaries . . . are for the studious girl between fourteen and eighteen ; and the more heavily does she stuff her head with them, so......
Mr. Humphreys Intends His Scholarly And Handsome Volume...
Hendred, near Abingdon, to be regarded as a tentative model for parish histories in general. We heartily concur in his belief that " village life is a great national asset," and......
An Entertaining Study Of American Social Life. The Comedy Is
excellent, the element of tragedy a little forced.......
Gods Of Modern Grub Street. By A. St. John Adcock
and E. 0. Hopp& (Sampson Low. 7s. 6d. net.) We never imagined that a journalist's Pantheon was so crowded. In this devotional there are photographs by Mr. E. 0. Hoppe of more......
History.
Ancient Man. By Hendrik Willem Van Loon. (Harrap. 5s. net.) Dr. Van Loon was much praised and much abused for his book, The Story of Mankind ; and his new publication will......
A Descriptive Catalogue Of The Naval Mss. In The Pepysian
Library. Edited by J. R. Tanner. Vol. IV. Admiralty Journal. (Navy Records Society. W. Clowes and Sons. 21s. net.) This profoundly interesting volume, too modestly described as......
Books And Writers.
Written in Friendship. A Book of Reminiscences by Gerald Cumberland. (Grant Richards. 7s. 6d. net.) Mr. Cumberland is as malicious in his friendship as he was friendly in his......
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