Tunisia, By Lieut.-col. Sir Reginald Rankin, Bt. (the...
12s. 6d.), is a really beautiful and workman- like edition. The issue of all the author's works in this edition is to be welcomed, for it is appropriate that so much candid and......
The Popular Edition Of The Odyssey Of Homer, Translated B
S. H. Butcher and Andrew Lang (The Medici Society, 25s.) is worthy of the publishers' reputation. Paper, type, mar- gins and covers are all excellent, and the illustrations,......
Minoans, Philistines And Greeks, By- Mr. A. C. Burn, Is
the latest volume in the admirable " History of Civilization " series published by Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner (15s.). Mr. Burn's thesis (an ominous but not unjust word......
Lovers Of The Beautiful Will Be Glad To Possess Swinburne's
Atalanta in Calydon (Oxford University Press, 21s.) in a facsimile of the first edition (limited to 500 copies), with an introduction by Dr. Georges Lafourcade. It is admirably......
The New Edition Of Biography For Beginners (werner...
6d.) is signalized by carrying the author's full name. This Bentley-cum-Chesterton scintillation requires no com- mendation (does not every smoking-room know the elerihew?), but......
The Conversations Of Dr. Johnson, Edited With An...
by R. W. Postgate (Knopf, 8s. ad.) is a very much abridged version of Boswell, made on the plea that the bulk of the original frightens off many potential Johnsonians. As an......
Some Entirely Charming Coloured Pictures Of Game And...
and of deer, by Philip Rickman and Frank Wallace, give grace to the very businesslike and even dogmatic advice set forth by Mr. Pollard in The Gun-room Guide (Eyre and......
Some Books Of The Week
Miss BRAILSFOIM'S beautiful and dramatic study of early Quakerism is well named The Making. of William Penn (Longman, 12s. 6d.). As we watch this charming boy becoming a mature......
In England's Industriul Salvation (allen And Unwin, 3s....
Frank Hillier takes a kind of tour of the chief economic questions of the day, applying to them what seems to be a genuinely unbiassed mind and a very wide experience. He......
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