Caligula By Dr. Harms Sachs
Contemporary rumour in Rome accounted for the mon- strous fury of the Emperor Caligula in its own way. A love- philtre prepared from a young fowl which had been frightened to......
Cranmer By Hilaire Belloc
Mr. Belloc is hardly the ideal biographer of Cramner (Cassell, 154.). But the skill and passion with which he paints a most unflattering portrait of the Archbishop whom he hates......
History Of Spanish Literature • By E. D. Laborde
A new History of Spanish Literature, by E. D. Laborde . (Heinemann, 7s. 6d.) has been written with the idea of providing a comprehensive but not exhaustive history of Spanish......
Bryan Cooper By Lennox Robinson
Mr. Lennox Robinson, in his hook on Bryan Cooper • (Constable, 7s. 6d.), has 'done a difficult thing 'admirably.' He had to write the life of a man who died at the age of forty-......
The Art Of Crime By Arthur R. L. Gardner
For those who wish to acquaint themselves with the methods practised by blackmailers, confidence tricksters, forgers, and the members of those other professions which, in......
A Last Chance In Kenya By Dr. Norman Lays'
Dr. Norman Leys' A Last Chance in Kenya (Hogarth Press. 8s. Gd.) is a formidable indictment and demands the attention of all concerned. In effect, it avers that a scarcely......
Current Literature
A HISTORY OF SWITZERLAND By William Martin TicElic are several good reasons for commending A Ilistory of Switzerland, by William Martin (Grant Richards, 10s. 6d.). The author is......
Bishop Berkeley : His Life, Writings And Philosophy By .1.
M. Hone and M. M. Rossi That Bishop Berkeley said there was no matter is a bit of inlinmation (it is hardly worth calling knowledge) which most people possess. But any more......
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