For Those Who Are Interested In The History Of Religion,
Methodism, by Dr. W. Bardsley Brash (Methuen, 5s.), contributed to Dr. L. P. Jacks's excellent series of " The Faiths," will provide an account of that great movement admirably......
The " Stagnation Of Ethics " As Compared With The
vigorous advances of physical science has set Mr. Leon Roth thinking. In an extremely brilliant essay, The Science of Morals, he suggests that the moral philosophers have not......
Bunyan Continues To Be Fortunate In His Tercentenary...
better book of its kind could be desired than Mr. Charles G. Harper's The Bunyan Country (Cecil Palmer, 12s. 6d.). Mr. Harper is the most assiduous of our topo- graphers. But he......
Mr. R. F. Foster Is A Great Authority On Bridge
; he imparts his wisdom to us very pleasantly in Bridge for Beginners (Lane, 5s.). If a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well, especially if doing it badly affects......
Some Books Of The Week
Wrruour Lady Gregory could there have been an Irish Theatre at all ? Hers was the essential talent and the essential personality which carried the venture through. If her Three......
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The Statist commemorates its fiftieth anniversary this week by publishing a big Jubilee number, which includes special articles by Lord Melchett, who writes on " The Growth of......
Constable Herbert Patrick Lee Has Given Us An...
book about his experiences in the Arctic, in Policing the Top of the World, (The Bodley Head, 8s. 6d.). The author's was one of the most northerly of the posts where those......
The Origins Of The League Covenant, By Florence Wilson...
Press, 10s. 6d.), deals with the discussions at the Peace Conference which, after the rejection of various alter- native proposals, led to the adoption of the League Covenant in......
" Under Our Feet There Is A World To Win,"
thinks Mr. J. Leslie Mitchell in Hanno (Kegan Paul. 2s. 6d.). Not only on the surface of our globe (which we are told is not round) but in its hollow (?) core, and in......
The Variorum Shakeiipeare Has Always Been Famous For The...
detail of its comment and apparatus ; and there is "much to be said for so concentrated an attention to Shakespeare's words as Coriolanus, edited by Howard Furness, Junr.......
The Competition
THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best inscription for a bust of either Miss Earhart, Signor Mussolini, Mr. Coolidge, Mr. G. Bernard Shaw, Mr. H. G. Wells, at......
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