This Week's Books
LORD MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU has sent us The New Pores, and Its Old Woods (6d.), giving a fascinating account of the thousand-year-old forces of Nature which have gone to make up......
"john O'london ". Has Made A Charming Compendium In London
Stories (Newnes, 2s.) of amusing information about " Old Q.," who sat on the balcony of 188 Piccadilly scanning the pretty women who passed while his groom Jack Radford waited......
Books About Books Remind Us Of The Wise Emperor Akbar,
who Said that reading was bad for the brain. It often is M. Jean Cocteau's recently translated A Call to Order (Faber and Gwyer, 7s. 6d.) gives us mental indigestion : it is......
Malay Land, By R. J. H. Sidney (cecil Palmer, 15s.)
con- tains some excellent illustrations and a thoroughly human text. The chapter on " How Europeans Live " is partienlarly good. Another interesting travel book is Sir Frank......
This Reviewer Has Been Informed That Madame Blavataky Had A'
tiny set of bells fitted into the roof of her mouth and titillated them with her tongue in order to produce the astral music which so much impressed the. early Theosophists ;......
We' Have Received A Fifth And Revised Edition Of Professor
J. Arthur Thonisines Heredity (Murray, 21s.), which is a pannier and deeply interesting work on a very complex subject. In connexion' with ' the 'late BroWn-Sequard's rather......
Miss Katharine Tynan.tells Us In A Dog Book (hutchinson, 4s.
6d.) that when she was reading aloud a harrowing dog story to her family circle, her white Pomeranian betrayed agitation and shivered and stared at her with his eyes watering. "......
General Sir Ian Hamilton Has Just Published A Volume Of
poems of remarkable quality, as we might expect from this distinguished and versatile soldier. The Ballad of Hadji and the Boar is good stuff, written with an expert knowledge......
The: Competition.
The Editor offers a prize of £5 for a suggestion for a new competition. THERE is one thing in particular on which we should like to know our readers' opinion. We have tried in......
Next Week Three Novels By Pio Baroja : A Review
by Hugh Walpole. The Rebellion of Science against Scientific Materialism : A review by Julian Huxley. Order your copy of the Spectator in advance.......
Books Recommended
MISCELLANF.OUS. -Lay Thoughts of a Dean. By W. R. Inge. (Putnam. 7s. 6d.)-The Romance of English Alms- . houses. By Mary Raphael. (Mills and Boon. "10s. 6d.) ' Scotland Yard. By......
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