Speech-making, Is A Bugbear For Nearly Every One Who Is
not either a lawyer or a politician. But there is almost sure to come a moment in the life of each of us 7 --at a lecture, at a dinner, at a bazaar—when a speech of some sort......
Nicky - Nan, Reservist. By " Q." (william Blackwood And...
of this notice had the good fortune to be in a Cornish village at the time when the Naval - Reserve was called out, and was able to see something of the dogged strength and......
The Lady Of The Beef. By F. Frankfort• Moore. (hutchinson
and Co. 6s.)—It is at those moments when Mr. Moore forgets that he is a novelist that we gain the greatest enjoyment from his novels. The plots of his stories tend towards an......
A Biography Of Spencer Fullerton Baird Has Been Written By
Dr. W. H. Dall (J. B. Lippincott Co., 15s. net). Baird was a, well-known American biologist, who died in 1887, after having been Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution at......
A Life Of John Viriamu Jones Has Been Written By
his wife, Mrs. Viriamu Jones (Smith, Elder, and Co., 10s. 6d. net). Viriamu Jones will be remembered as the first Principal of the University College of South Wales and......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Notice in this column doss not necessarily preclude subssquotreutsw.] Colonel George W. Goethals is known everywhere for his work in Panama during the construction of the......
Some Weeks Ago (on June 12th) We Noticed At Length
a volume entitled J'Accuse, by a German. This work has now been translated into English by Mr. Alexander Gray (Hodder and Stoughton, 5s. net), and we may once more strongly......
Readable Novels. —the Great White Army. By Max Pemberton,...
Co. 6s.)—These stories of the retreat from Moscow are full of hairbreadth escapes and desperate adventures indeed, they are capital reading. The House of the Foxes. By Katharine......
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